From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 15 15:55:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jhb-proxy.mweb.co.za (jhb-proxy.mweb.co.za [196.2.48.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C96B37BA13 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gramster@mweb.co.za) Received: from mweb.co.za. (cpt-dial-196-30-179-15.mweb.co.za) by jhb-proxy.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FW700LY3WZEIP@jhb-proxy.mweb.co.za> for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:54:51 +0200 (GMT-2) Received: from mweb.co.za (jukebox [192.168.1.4]) by mweb.co.za. (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA36208; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:20:44 +0200 (SAST envelope-from gramster@mweb.co.za) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:24:33 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Subject: Re: XFree86 and console switching crash To: Jonathan Smith Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <394957A0.7DDE2C5C@mweb.co.za> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Smith wrote: > Hey guys, you're missing his point. He wants to fix/work around the > problem. By telling him 'well why don't you use xterm or...' You're > saying you don't care that he's got a problem. Well, its great to have people suggestions, anyway. Yes, I like working with text-mode consoles, but I do use xterms for limited tasks and I've learnt about Shift-PgUp/Shift-PgDn which I hadn't learned before, and that could be useful to me. So you're right, but so is everyone offering suggestions 8-) > Yes, he _can_ do all kinds of things in X, but if he doesn't want to, it's > not like he's saying he wants to run an aout system in 4-stable, he just > has a preference to what he does. > > FWIW, I'm running X4 at work and switch back and forth without any > trouble. Several people have reported the same, so I think the bug is likely specific to the Trident chipset(s). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message