Date: 02 Feb 1998 23:05:09 +0100 From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape/swap_pager causing problems with syscons Message-ID: <87pvl5u0h6.fsf@muon.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Donn Miller's message of Mon, 2 Feb 1998 13:38:53 %2B0000 (GMT) References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980202132937.222A-100000@myname.my.domain>
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>> On Mon, 2 Feb 1998 13:38:53 +0000 (GMT), Donn Miller
>> <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> said:
DM> This problem was alluded to before. When running X windows,
DM> say you start netscape. Then you run out of swap space. What
DM> happens next is that X windows lock the computer solid, or X
DM> windows crashes, leaving me with a blank screen. None of the
DM> virtual terminals work then, but I know the system is still
DM> running, because ctrl+alt+delete reboots (shuts down) the
DM> system. But I still see nothing on the screen.
The problem that I reported before is not this one: I'm sure my
swapspace was not depleted, and also the lock is thus that I get a
sponaneous reboot (no ctrl+alt+delete needed).
Last night I was working from an X-terminal (remotely) on my computer,
again with netscape, emacs and lots of other windows at the same time
open.
The only difference: no X running locally, and also no mouse events on
the mousedriver. There was no crash at all.
I suspect the problem is with the psm0 driver, because since I started
to use a PS/2 mouse instead of a serial one it seems to have started;
but that might be coincidence and maybe the X server is causing it.
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