[Preston] XFree86 crashing in Debian

[Guy Heatley]

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On Sunday 13 April 2003 8:54 pm, you wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I should probably be looking at the Debian site / posting to a Debian
> list about this, but just on the offchance...
>
> Every Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r0 installation I've done for i386 has had a
> serious bug in the window system: if a display manager (gdm|kdm|xdm) is
> running, if you Ctrl+Alt+F? out of it into a VC, and don't go back (via
> Alt+F7) for about 10 minutes or longer, then XFree86 crashes on your
> first keystroke and resets itself.  This happens whether you were at the
> login prompt or logged in with programs running.
>
I have noticed something similar:
If I use the same method to get a VC, Xwindows completely locks up if I try 
to return to X. (Alt + Ctrl + Backspace has no effect) and I need to reset 
the machine.
I put this down to me compiling a kernel with either framebuffering support 
or the 'fancy' console res switching mode but I was never sure exactly (my 
kernel has both).
I didn't actually try this with anything other than my custom kernel.

The same thing happens if I try to play the port of the old C64 game 'Thrust' 
in SVGA mode. The game works fine but I cannot return to X when I kill the 
program, and the machine locks up.

Generally X seems stable but admittedly if you use a VC a lot, it is a 
serious bug.
:-\
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Guy

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