Re: ISSUE: Hanging machine after Console-Switching
Rene Scholz (mrz@informatik.uni-jena.de)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:06:18 +0100 (MET)
Rene Scholz writes:
> 1. Hanging machine after Console-Switching
>
> 2.
>
> The problem: After some switching of the console (hitting alt-left or
> alt-right or alt-print) the machine just hangs.
> No key events are processed, a reset is necessary.
>
> Symptoms:
> - After calling SVGATextMode there is (often) some garbling on the
> current console (new chars are printed, others are lost, colors
> are changing). In an editor one can call redraw to clear this.
> - The same effect I get when switching the console with alt-left ...
> - After some or many or very fast switchings the machine hangs.
> I have to push the reset button, CAD don't work.
> - This also occurs after a shutdown -h .
> - All this does not occur with a 2.0.36 kernel.
I have now compiled some older 2.1 kernels and found out that this bug
was introduced with kernel 2.1.109.
rené
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