Hi, "Jonathan D. Amery" wrote: > > I'm running a Sparc LX on Debian stable and just installed the > xserver-xsun package. I logged in fine to the X session that was > thrown up and everything seemed to be working then I switched to a > virtual console. A couple of keypresses later my X's screen superimposes > itself on my VC and both hangup requireing logging in from a remote > machine to fix the problem...
I had a similar problem with my SPARCstation 2. Parts of the X screen could suddenly be seen on a virtual console and some time later the whole machine locked, so I needed to login remotly to reboot it. I did not find a solution, but I found out that this is a problem with the framebuffer device. The system was running potato and kernel 2.2.17. I can't say if an upgrade will help as this machine does not run Linux anymore. Just to let you know: My SPARC worked stable if I did not switch to a virtual console and only used X. HTH Dennis -- "What is the difference between sunos and solaris? Do they cross at some point? My E450 just came sunos loaded but I need solaris. They are different, correct?" read in comp.unix.solaris
