Yup. This is a bug in the ATI mobility driver; it hangs the bus. Sigh.
Seems to be fixed in current XFree86 CVS; I can again switch VT's. - Jim -- Jim Gettys Cambridge Research Laboratory HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christian Gennerat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 12:00:54 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.x Subject: XFree86 freeze after switching to console ----- xserver-xfree86-dbg 4.2.1-0pre1v2 (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.4.8) for chipsets: ati, ativga (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility LW (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c57) (II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=12 min=20000 max=35000; xclk=16600 (==) RADEON(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) RADEON(0): Virtual size is 1600x1200 (pitch 1632) (**) RADEON(0): Mode "1600x1200" (**) RADEON(0): Mode "1280x1024" (**) RADEON(0): Mode "1024x768" (==) RADEON(0): DPI set to (75, 75) (**) RADEON(0): Using AGP 4x mode ( Switching to console Ctl-Alt-F1 OK Switching back to Xfree Alt-F7 screen is weirdly refreshed, and keyboard is freezed. with ssh, I can run top: 13:05:09 up 35 min, 3 users, load average: 1.09, 0.75, 0.3 62 processes: 60 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.9% user, 17.6% system, 0.0% nice, 81.5% idle Mem: 256056K total, 97700K used, 158356K free, 7864K buffers Swap: 401552K total, 0K used, 401552K free, 43460K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 425 root 20 -10 52964 9372 4688 R < 99.5 3.6 6:04 XFree86-debug 710 root 10 0 940 940 736 R 0.9 0.3 0:00 top 1 root 9 0 472 472 408 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 init killing X or gdm, or X and gdm do nothing, when X is restarted, the same weird screen is displayed. No keyboard input accepted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]