From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 19 1:47: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1B237BC4A for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 01:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id KAA27101; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:46:48 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 27013; Mon Jun 19 10:45:48 2000 Message-ID: <6b917f781842f76a5b42520eb4d7e391@cequrux.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:48:06 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jtm63@enteract.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORg Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0 console switching crash References: <00061709214001.06175@smtp.enteract.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James McNaughton wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > Related to my XFree86-4.0/Trident Cyberblade crashes > > > FWIW, I have the same thing happening on my desktop since I switched to > a Number Nine I128 card (PCI) from Number Nine GXE (ISA). With the old > card I could switch back and forth between X and any terminal forever. > Now it's crashola -- however it's just the video display that's > crashing. The system is still running and ctrl-alt-del reboots normally > syncing the disks etc. You may want to try that if it happens again. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, nor can the machine be pinged. > IMHO it's the driver and not the chipset. Rephrase that as "the driver *for* the chipset". -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message