Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:36:07 -0500 | From | Joseph Pingenot <> | Subject | Re: freezing afer switching from graphical to console |
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From Michael Gruner on Tuesday, 09 July, 2002: >Hi, >ok, did it as you say: in the BIOS I switched to Vsync/blank screen. >Let's see what happens. >BTW: My graphics card isn't a nvidia as many of you suggested but an ATI >Rage pro (what did you wrote Bernd? ;-) ). >Another interesting thing I got back in mind today was: one day my XMMS >played a mp3 song and I switched to console (oooops...you know what >happend) but the song kept on playing in a loop that was some >milliseconds until I powered the box off. I don't know what to think >about that.
I've seen the same thing on my ATI XPert@Play (Rage Pro chipset). At 2.4.17, it was a risky proposition to switch between X and a text VC. It's better in 2.4.18, although not much (I believe. I may be wrong). I have happend upon a situation a number of times where, when switching from X to a text VC, the machine "locks up", but CTRL-F7 (the X VC) will get me back to a working X login screen (KDM), at least for a while. If I keep trying to switch to a text VC (which never works), it eventually fully locks up, to the point where I have to pull the plug, since the on switch is non-responsive. If I tell it to shut down, it gets *most* of the way through before carping out and locking up fully. I don't *believe* I've seen this in 2.5.x, although I may be wrong.
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