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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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