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Date:      Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:15:50 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee)
Cc:        atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help! keyboard lockups - could be kernel bug ?
Message-ID:  <199709092015.NAA02182@usr03.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970909114511.5270A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Sep 9, 97 11:46:11 am

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> This has happened to me also quite a few times, at first I suspected
> netscape but then discovered that when the machine is under heavy load the
> CTRL-ALT-F? sequences don't work correctly to change from X to the Virtual
> consoles.

Changing from X works because the kernel tells X to change the video
card back to what it was before X was running, and then tell it when it's
done.

Since X is a user process, if it can't run, then you can't change because
it can't service the kernel's request.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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