> > > in any case, Linus's conservative approach to GGI is excellent;
> > > most people are indeed *not* religiously opposed to X. personally,
> > > I've _never_ had an X bug cause video problems or a crash,
> > > and I've been using Linux and X for more than a couple years.
> >
> > Do this for me: Limit your mem to 16Meg, make your machine swap a
> > bit. Now switch consoles from/into X and do it fast. Be creative and
> > you'll see complete freeze or at least complete mess-up of video.
>
> Although I can't say for sure, this sounds suspiciously like a bug in X
> (well, we know that already, but I'll be more specific). During the switch
> to/from graphical mode, X is responsible for diddling the registers
> on the
Well, something else happens on my machine. X actually paint (modulo
colors) on other virtual console than they should. Syncronization
between X and kernel is lost. On tty1 I can see my windows (with
messed colors and shifted, otherwise ok), but kernel apparently writes
there. So if I type characters, pixels change.
If you look and X / console switch design, it is mess.
You are probably right with your diagnostics when machine freezes -
I've seen those, also.
Pavel
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