From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 12 17:38:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12451 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:38:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12382 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:37:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA04389; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:07:21 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807130037.KAA04389@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nathan Dorfman cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Display locked when X server dies In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:15:15 -0400." <19980712191515.A195@rtfm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:07:20 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Killing the X server from a regular vty works fine. Try > this: > > vty$ startx > vty$ kill -9 [pid of X server] > --- > vty$ startx > xterm$ kill -9 [pid of X server] > > The first example works fine, the X server exits as expected. In the > second form, you'll see your X session freeze. Please post your > results, as I'd like to know if this is a problem in -current or Nope, thats perfectly normal behaviour.. If you send the X process a normal kill then it will be able to exit and take the video card out of gfx mode, if you muke it with -9 then the kernel will kill the process before it can do anything useful to the garphics card (a program can't catch a kill -9) The reason you can't fix it is because the kernel doesn't know how to take the video card out of graphics mode (thats what the drivers are for in X :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message