Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 12:21:08 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 4.0-Stable/XFree86-4.0/syscons switching crash Message-ID: <93676b3af19b0fcbd3f667ba55a116cc@cequrux.com>
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Hi all I am running 4.0-S on a Compaq Presario laptop with a Trident Cyberblade VGA. I couldn't get this to work in anything other than 640x480 with XFree86-3.3.6, so I moved to XFree86-4.0 (and no, I'm not interested in mail from people who say that the Trident Cyberblade works for them in 3.3.6; believe me, mine doesn't - I spent a week jumping through hoops with it before I gave up. If you were lucky enough to have xf86config or XF86Setup work for you with this chipset, I'm happy for you - but I had to hand-customise the XF86Config file extensively even to get 640x480 to work). Anyway, XFree86 4.0 works for me, except for a couple of glitches. The first one, which occurs sufficiently infrequently that I can live with it, is that sometimes when I kill X and return to text mode my Enter key gets remapped to Scroll Lock. Irritating in the extreme, but it doesn't happen consistently, just occasionally. Much more distressing: if I switch out of X to a text mode console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn, and then switch back to X, the machine freezes up completely and has to be power-cycled. It does first switch back into graphics mode, and I can see the top part of the screen is messed up, so it hasn't restored the low memory. Effectively this means once I'm in X, I need to stay in it, or kill it completely to get out (and hope my Enter key still works after that). Now, I'm not sure whether this is an XFree86 bug, and if so whether it is chipset-specific, or whether this is a syscons bug. I don't really know enough about either to really tackle it, but I'm prepared to make a stab at it - but I'd like to know where I should be looking. Should I be looking in the X sources, or the kernel sources? And whereabouts? Any pointers will be appreciated (no pun intended). TIA gram -- 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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