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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably...
To: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 13:14:34 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199511150652.AA002288372@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from "Darryl Okahata" at Nov 14, 95 10:52:52 pm
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Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com writes:

> > > The cards themselves are no great shakes, and the behaviour of the server
> > > leads me to _strongly_ discourage people from using them. (Especially giv
> > > 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...
> 
>      It would be interesting to see if the people who are having
> problems with ET4000/W32p-based video cards are using syscons or pcvt.
> There have been a few posts recently regarding the "better robustness"
> of pcvt (vs syscons), and I just recently found a "bug" in syscons that
> was causing all my syscons fonts to be corrupted (after using
> X-Windows).

I'm using syscons... also, I can make this happens pretty easily so
if there's something anyone wants me to try I will.

For the time being, I've been starting X and just never switching back.. :-)

-Archie

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