Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:07:20 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Display locked when X server dies Message-ID: <199807130037.KAA04389@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:15:15 -0400." <19980712191515.A195@rtfm.net>
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> Killing the X server from a regular vty works fine. Try > this: > > vty$ startx > vty$ kill -9 [pid of X server] > --- > vty$ startx > xterm$ kill -9 [pid of X server] > > The first example works fine, the X server exits as expected. In the > second form, you'll see your X session freeze. Please post your > results, as I'd like to know if this is a problem in -current or Nope, thats perfectly normal behaviour.. If you send the X process a normal kill then it will be able to exit and take the video card out of gfx mode, if you muke it with -9 then the kernel will kill the process before it can do anything useful to the garphics card (a program can't catch a kill -9) The reason you can't fix it is because the kernel doesn't know how to take the video card out of graphics mode (thats what the drivers are for in X :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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