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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:57:41 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        mjc@xara.net (Martin Cooper)
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [2.2-970225] XF86_S3 crashes when changing VCs
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970302165741.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199703021502.PAA20950@diamond.xara.net>; from Martin Cooper on Mar 2, 1997 15:02:20 %2B0000
References:  <199703021502.PAA20950@diamond.xara.net>

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As Martin Cooper wrote:

> I suspect either:
> 
> a) Default kernel w/ 2.2-GAMMA doesn't have support for SYSVSHM
>    in it, where earlier versions e.g. 2.1.7-RELEASE did.
> b) XF86_S3 that comes with 2.2-GAMMA (XFree 3.2) demands support
>    for SYSVSHM and/or doesn't have the support built in.

Neither kernel has SYSVSHM by default, but that's digging in the wrong
direction.  You don't need it at all.  (What you're missing then is
the MIT-SHM extension of XFree86, but there are only very few clients
that make use of it.)

Your problem is totally different, and is (most likely) related to the
syscons console driver.  Its keyboard layer has been totally rewritten
in 2.2.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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