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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 1995 19:16:13 +0100 (BST)
From:      Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>
To:        Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c syscons.h
Message-ID:  <199507151816.TAA01877@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199507121702.SAA14679@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> from "Karl Strickland" at Jul 12, 95 06:02:05 pm

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> > 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 :-(

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