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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: reboot when using vidcontrol
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:19:32 +1100 (EST)
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I have three machines which will each intermittently reboot .. screen goes
blank then back to the BIOS memory test .. when using vidcontrol :-(

I have no idea what causes it although since I only ever run vidcontrol
immediately after a shutdown, there may be some backlogged network activity
starting up (deferred sendmail activity started by secondary MX receivers).
Whilst I don't believe this has any direct impact, the timing variance
incurred by the extra load may.

The most affected is the slowest (this machine), a 386DX/40. The exact
command-line I use is "vidcontrol VGA_80x30" but I've seen it once with
80x50. Anybody have any thoughts ?

BTW .. it also happened before the recent syscons changes so I don't believe
they're related,

	michael