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.

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...
>