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Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 19:12:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: sherwink@ix.netcom.com
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Subject: kern/6566: vidcontrol causes a hard lockup
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>Number:         6566
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       vidcontrol causes a hard lockup
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May  9 19:10:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sherwin Kaplan
>Organization:
>Release:        2.2.6 Stable cvsup May 8, 1998
>Environment:
FreeBSD bookend.ix.netcom.com 2.2.6-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE #0: 
Fri May  8 23:57:42 PDT 1998     
sherwin@bookend.ix.netcom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/SHERWIN  i386
>Description:
The following shell script, will sometimes cause a hard lockup, 
with keyboard lights not working, CTL-ALT-DEL not working, and a
garbled display. It will only happen once in a while, but it definitely
is the cause of the lockup:

#! /bin/sh

vidcontrol -b red yellow cyan
vidcontrol VGA_80x30
>How-To-Repeat:
Run the script multiple times.
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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