On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:21:17PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:11:00AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > Hi, > > On my i386 box I run two X servers, one on vt9 (24-bit) and one on vt10 > > (16-bit). From time to time I press the wrong function key when changeing > > servers, like ctrl-alt-F11. ctrl-alt-F11 immediately causes the machine to > > completely lockup, clocks stop, can't kill the X server, even the MagicSysRQ > > key does not work anymore, can not log in via the network. Is this exspected > > behaviour or did I manage to configure something wrong? > > Yuck. Sounds very nasty indeed. > > This could be a kernel bug, or it could be the X server freaking out and > trashing the bus. > > All I can suggest is mouting you /var parition with the "sync" flag, > reproducing this problem, and then seeing if the X server issued a death > scream of some sort to the logfile. Tried that again, nothing to see in the logfiles. > Otherwise I suggest you take this inquiry to xpert@xfree86.org; it's a bit > beyond me. Oh, I forgot about that one, maybe I will get an answer on that question.
But maybe Zephaniah E. Hull could explain this: > This is really not all that surprising, what video card is it? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^? still an ATI Mach64 RagePro 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) Christian
