From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 23:43:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA05961 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:43:08 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA05939 ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:42:58 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA00793; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:34:52 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511140734.HAA00793@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably... To: archie@tribe.com (Archie Cobbs) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:34:51 +0000 () Cc: scrappy@hub.org, paul@netcraft.co.uk, paul@trumpet.net.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511140258.SAA00296@bubba.tribe.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Nov 13, 95 06:58:10 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1061 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Archie Cobbs stands accused of saying: > 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? The ET4000 (and particularly the W32 variants) XFree server is _very_fragile_. The cards themselves are no great shakes, and the behaviour of the server leads me to _strongly_ discourage people from using them. (Especially given how cheap S3-based cards are these days). > Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[