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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:34:51 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        archie@tribe.com (Archie Cobbs)
Cc:        scrappy@hub.org, 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:  <199511140734.HAA00793@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199511140258.SAA00296@bubba.tribe.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Nov 13, 95 06:58:10 pm

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Archie Cobbs stands accused of saying:
> 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?

The ET4000 (and particularly the W32 variants) XFree server is _very_fragile_.

The cards themselves are no great shakes, and the behaviour of the server
leads me to _strongly_ discourage people from using them. (Especially given
how cheap S3-based cards are these days).

> Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com  *  Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com

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