Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:15:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Cc: atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! keyboard lockups - could be kernel bug ? Message-ID: <199709092015.NAA02182@usr03.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970909114511.5270A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Sep 9, 97 11:46:11 am
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> This has happened to me also quite a few times, at first I suspected > netscape but then discovered that when the machine is under heavy load the > CTRL-ALT-F? sequences don't work correctly to change from X to the Virtual > consoles. Changing from X works because the kernel tells X to change the video card back to what it was before X was running, and then tell it when it's done. Since X is a user process, if it can't run, then you can't change because it can't service the kernel's request. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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