From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 13 19:02:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA14108 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 19:02:56 -0800 Received: from bubba.tribe.com ([205.184.207.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA14103 ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 19:02:46 -0800 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.tribe.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00296; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 18:58:11 -0800 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199511140258.SAA00296@bubba.tribe.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably... To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 18:58:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, paul@trumpet.net.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 13, 95 09:01:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1312 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) quotes: > > I've had worse problems with syscons. There's something wrong with syscons > > vt switching, it's not completely reproducable but it happens frequently > > enough that I've now switched all our machines to pcvt. The symptom is that > > when you switch VT the screen goes completely blank and further attempts > > to switch VT just gets a beep (as though no VT was configured). Everything > > is still running (getty etc) but the screen is just totally blank. Only way > > to recover the console is to reboot. This just started happening when I loaded 2.1-951104-SNAP onto a new machine: ASUS SP3G with Intel 486DX2/66 ... If I startup X, and then try to switch back to a text console, the screen goes blank and everything hangs. I've got vt0-vt5 as login windows, running X on vt6... this happens with the ET4000 X server, both versions 3.1.1 and 3.1.2. Could the ET4000 be involved somehow? Sometimes you get the beeps, sometimes not. When you get the beeps, then that means you can hit ctrl-alt-del and the box gracefully shuts down and reboots. If no beep, then you have to hit reset. -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com