From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 08:00:52 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA00179 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 08:00:52 -0800 Received: from bell.cs.strath.ac.uk (bell.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA00159 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 08:00:31 -0800 From: nbc@cs.strath.ac.uk Received: from neilson.cs.strath.ac.uk by bell.cs.strath.ac.uk id aa04877; 10 Nov 95 15:59 GMT To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Catastrophic Failure! In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 95 10:42:42 EST." Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 15:59:13 +0000 Message-ID: <9511101559.aa04877@bell.cs.strath.ac.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Yes, there are bogons still there. My GXe was recently fried by >lightning via an internal modem, so I borrowed a Diamond Stealth (24?). >I consistently had problems switching out of graphics mode. The machine >would lock up hard or reboot 75% of the time either when exiting X or >switching to a vtty. Now that you mention it, I *have* had problems occasionally when switching from X to a vtty, but nowhere near as frequently as 75%. They have only occurred a few times, but when they did the machine needed a three fingered salute. It's not been such an issue since I've been running xdm though. Neil