Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:07:15 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably... Message-ID: <199511142107.NAA02611@bubba.tribe.com> In-Reply-To: <199511140734.HAA00793@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 14, 95 07:34:51 am
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Mike Smith sez: > 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). The et4000/w32p server has been rock solid under Linux for over a year... just a data point... -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com
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