From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 18 16:18:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-151-197-205-169.bellatlantic.net (adsl-151-197-205-169.bellatlantic.net [151.197.205.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E1A37BC0C for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 16:18:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bleez@bellatlantic.net) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by adsl-151-197-205-169.bellatlantic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00458; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 19:18:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bleez@bellatlantic.net) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 19:18:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Bryan Liesner X-Sender: root@adsl-151-197-205-169.bellatlantic.net To: James McNaughton Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORg Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0 console switching crash In-Reply-To: <00061709214001.06175@smtp.enteract.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, James McNaughton wrote: >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. > >IMHO it's the driver and not the chipset. I had exactly the same thing happen with XFree 4.0 also. Try this - while in text mode try switching between consoles with alt-f2 alt-f1. That seemed to wake up my video display without the need to reboot. The problem went away when I upgraded my S3 ViRGE/DX pci to an S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP card. On a side note, when I switch to a text screen from X 4.0, I noticed performance started dropping rapidly. I ran top and the X server was just eating up cpu time. Never had this problem with X 3.3.6 and earlier. ========================================================== = Bryan D. Liesner LeezSoft Communications, Inc. = = A subsidiary of LeezSoft Inc. = = bleez@bellatlantic.net Home of the Gipper = ========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message