Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:02:24 -0500 From: Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Console freeze but still alive Message-ID: <20050211000224.GA717@lucy.pool-70-104-70-104.pskn.east.verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <20050210232028.GJ82324@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <200502090737.36020.syjef@mdanderson.org> <200502101420.35641.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050210200259.GA31485@thingy.tbd.co.nz> <200502101513.48491.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050210231723.GB31485@thingy.tbd.co.nz> <20050210232028.GJ82324@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > Ive found that it is not 100% certain to freeze which has made my > > testing so far worthless. :( > > I have applied Ian's callout patch and after about a dozen reboots the > > console has not stopped. It looks promising so far but I will keep my > > eye on it. > > Same thing here. I switched between console and X a few times, played > with my mouse in console mode and used my computer for a while, and I've > not seen a console freeze yet. But I have not been able to guess how > to repeat the problem, so ... I'll go on using my computer :-). Are either of you using a splash screen? I've found that an unpatched tree using splash_bmp, if the image can't be displayed then the console eventually messes up in the way I described. If it can be displayed, the console continues to work fine. Using the patch he posted, it works correctly either way. -- Skip
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