From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 18 15:34:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.enteract.com (216-80-13-102.d.enteract.com [216.80.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB7E37BAC9 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:34:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jtm@smtp.enteract.com) Received: by smtp.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA11039 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORg; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:21:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jtm) From: James McNaughton Reply-To: jtm63@enteract.com To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORg Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0 console switching crash Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:09:38 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00061709214001.06175@smtp.enteract.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Graham Wheeler wrote: > Related to my XFree86-4.0/Trident Cyberblade crashes > > This is really an X question, but maybe someone can answer it anyway. Is > there a way I can *prevent* X from allowing me to switch to a text-mode > screen with Ctrl-Alt-Fn? If I could do this then at least I'll stop > inadvertantly crashing my laptop - it's just such a habit for me to > switch I keep doing it (I usually do my editing with vi on text-mode > screens and run Netscrape communicator under X for my mail and web). If > the only way to get to a text-mode tty is to kill X, then at least I > will have to do less power-cycles and fscks. I'll just have to learn to > do my editing under X. > FWIW, I have the same thing happening on my desktop since I switched to a Number Nine I128 card (PCI) from Number Nine GXE (ISA). With the old card I could switch back and forth between X and any terminal forever. Now it's crashola -- however it's just the video display that's crashing. The system is still running and ctrl-alt-del reboots normally syncing the disks etc. You may want to try that if it happens again. IMHO it's the driver and not the chipset. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message