Killing X server using ctrl-alt-bksp screws up eth0???

[John (EBo) David]

Lisa Winkler wrote:
> 
> That's interesting, I hadn't thought of that....  Maybe they are sharing an IRQ.  dmesg doesn't say anything about the irq my graphics card is using?  Maybe there is something in /proc I could check?  I have practically no knowledge of /proc.

I spent a month searching something like this...

While you are checking, cruze through the bios.  In the case I was
refering to I used an old ISA card (as aposed to buying a nice new
PCI).  There were two places in the bios that said IRQ X is usable for
the PCI, and IRQ X is snaged by the ISA

> Incidentally I recently upgraded to 7.2.  I used to run 6.2 on the same video card and NIC (different mobo though) and I used to ctrl-alt-bksp all the time with no problems.
> 
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, KevinO wrote:
> 
> > Lisa Winkler wrote:
> > >
> > > If I kill my X server using ctrl-alt-bksp, my eth0 device disappears.  It still
> > > shows up in /proc but if I do an ifconfig eth0 up, it says the device doesn't
> > > exist.
> >
> > I saw a laptop (RH7.1) do something like this tonight.... Perhaps a
> > pcmcia-video hardware conflict ??
> >
> > I might poke deeper into this but I don't run RH here at the house...
> >
> 
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