From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 4:33: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9068A37BAF3 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 04:33:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net. [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA91797; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:32:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <393F8463.1E5772C6@thehousleys.net> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 07:32:51 -0400 From: James Housley Organization: The Housleys dot Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham Wheeler Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-Stable/XFree86-4.0/syscons switching crash References: <93676b3af19b0fcbd3f667ba55a116cc@cequrux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graham Wheeler wrote: > > > Much more distressing: if I switch out of X to a text mode console with > Ctrl-Alt-Fn, and then switch back to X, the machine freezes up > completely and has to be power-cycled. It does first switch back into > graphics mode, and I can see the top part of the screen is messed up, so > it hasn't restored the low memory. > I had similar problems. I removed splash_bmp from my loader.conf, splash screen/screen saver, and the problems has gone away for me. My would lockup if I tried to return to X from text after the delay time. Jim -- Studies show that 1 out of every 4 Americans suffer some form of mental illness. So look at your three best friends, if they are okay it is YOU! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message