Quoting David Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi:
> 
> I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to report this.

Hi,

directfb-users would be the right place, but let's continue this thread
here to avoid confusion ;)

> I just checked out XDirectFB and DirectFB from CVS this morning, rebuilt
> both, and fired up XDirectFB. I'm getting what looks like corrupted
> video memory about 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time, I get an
> X display, but the keyboard and mouse input soon become unresponsive.

I just committed a fix to the keyboard driver that makes XDirectFB work
again from linux console (I know it should have been an issue in vt.c,
this will be cleaned up soon).

I don't know exactly why this happened with XDirectFB only.
I could not really debug it, because it works when started in strace ;-P
But it didn't in gdb, so it's not a ptrace issue, I think.

> The video card is a Matrox G400 32mb, dual-head capable.

32M is nice for many, many windows ;)

> The machine is alive at the kernel level (I can ssh in, etc), but all of
> the virtual consoles, keyboard, and mouse are locked up, even when
> XDirectFB terminates on SIGTERM.

Did you try Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace?

Anyway, it should deinitialize correctly on a signal.

> All of the DirectFB demos work great on this (uniprocessor) box, so I'm
> pretty confident it's not a configuration issue. I've tried kernels
> 2.4.17 - 2.4.19-ac3, both with and without rml's preempt patches. Also tried
> memory tests and the X mga server; both of these work great also.
> 
> Unless I'm really doing something boneheaded, it looks to me like I'm
> managing to trigger a race during the initialization of the framebuffer.
> I'm at a loss as to what to try next, so I thought I'd see if anyone has
> any debugging hints (or can reproduce this behavior).

I could reproduce it. I always started it from xterm before and it worked.

> I'm more than willing to freeze up this machine a few more times, send
> configuration information, strace output, etc.

You didn't try strace, did you? You would have been surprised like me ;)

Please try again and don't worry about the error messages,
these will disappear after I understood all this VT/TTY voodoo ;)

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Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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