Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 18:58:10 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com> To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, paul@trumpet.net.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5R hanging inexplicably... Message-ID: <199511140258.SAA00296@bubba.tribe.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951113205820.188F-100000@hub.org> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 13, 95 09:01:52 pm
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scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) quotes: > > I've had worse problems with syscons. There's something wrong with syscons > > vt switching, it's not completely reproducable but it happens frequently > > enough that I've now switched all our machines to pcvt. The symptom is that > > when you switch VT the screen goes completely blank and further attempts > > to switch VT just gets a beep (as though no VT was configured). Everything > > is still running (getty etc) but the screen is just totally blank. Only way > > to recover the console is to reboot. This just started happening when I loaded 2.1-951104-SNAP onto a new machine: ASUS SP3G with Intel 486DX2/66 ... If I startup X, and then try to switch back to a text console, the screen goes blank and everything hangs. I've got vt0-vt5 as login windows, running X on vt6... this happens with the ET4000 X server, both versions 3.1.1 and 3.1.2. Could the ET4000 be involved somehow? Sometimes you get the beeps, sometimes not. When you get the beeps, then that means you can hit ctrl-alt-del and the box gracefully shuts down and reboots. If no beep, then you have to hit reset. -Archie _______________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com
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