On 2020-03-21, bob prohaska  wrote:
> I'm seeing rather frequent lockups on Buster using the
> traditional graphics driver and chromium. Attempting the
> "advanced" driver makes the problem much worse. All three
> are up-to-date. The Pi still answers pings.
>
> Older versions of x11 had an escape sequence to kill the
> server and get back to a command line without pulling the
> plug. If that's still so, could somebody please tell me
> what it is?
>
> Thanks for reading,
>

Can you press CTL-ALT-F1 (or F2 or F3 etc) to get to a login console?
If so, you can login and kill the X server. etc?

Jim

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