From owner-freebsd-commit Sat Jul 15 11:47:18 1995 Return-Path: commit-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA14451 for commit-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:47:18 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA14437 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:47:13 -0700 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAB14430 ; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:47:02 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id aa11735; 15 Jul 95 19:16 +0100 Received: from bagpuss.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa14445; 15 Jul 95 19:16 +0100 Received: (karl@localhost) by bagpuss.demon.co.uk (3.1/3.1) id TAA01877; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 19:16:13 +0100 From: Karl Strickland Message-Id: <199507151816.TAA01877@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h To: Karl Strickland Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 19:16:13 +0100 (BST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199507121702.SAA14679@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> from "Karl Strickland" at Jul 12, 95 06:02:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1055 Sender: commit-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Might this fix the problem that has been reported as ``switching VT's > > at a rate of 1 a second for about 2 to 3 minutes will result in a system > > hang?'' > > I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with this problem, I was trying to > track this down the other day - but when it hangs the system, it really > does hang it - I couldnt even prod it by provoking an NMI. I can usually > hang it in a lot less than 2/3 minutes - it seems to happen more often > when you switch away from the X11 screen (I run xdm on startup) - last > time I tried it, it hung first time. > > I had this problem under FreeBSD 1.x as well - few weeks ago I switched to > pcvt because of it. I'll try and hang it with these latest fixes... Unfortunately, I can still hang it :-( -- ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk |