On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 19:49 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote: > and if you're really unlucky you get dbus to crash hal to crash your > gfx > driver, so your only option left is the power button. Please don't post things you haven't looked into. Hal has nothing to do with your gfx driver, as gfx drivers are probed by xorg itself using the libpciaccess library. The only things managed by hal/dbus in xorg are input devices.