From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 9 13:16:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA02934 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr03.primenet.com (tlambert@usr03.primenet.com [206.165.6.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA02923 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA02182; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:15:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709092015.NAA02182@usr03.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Help! keyboard lockups - could be kernel bug ? To: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:15:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Sep 9, 97 11:46:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.