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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably...
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:07:15 -0800 (PST)
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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

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