I have come upon a reproducible lockup on my system when switching from a console virtual terminal to X. It can be produced as follows:
Begin X Switch back to a virtual console Switch back to X This causes the X display to appear on the screen, with a strip along the top deformed. In this state, the X server is unresponsive to ctrl-alt-backspace, and I am unable to switch to any other virtual terminals. However, I can still log in remotely. Using alt-sysreq-k, the display then changes colors, to what I believe might be a lower color palatte, but cannot be certain of. After this, I am then able to switch virtual terminals, log in as root, run mode3, and have the display restored. At this point, vc/7 has not been restored to an unused state. Instead there is any text I typed while the display was locked, followed by a blinking cursor. If I now attempt to restart X, the system will lock completely. The monitor will go into power saving mode, the keyboard is unresponsive, and I am unable to log in remotely. I hope this has been a reasonably thorough description of the problem, now my hardware and software configuration. Hardware: ATI Radeon 64DDR AMD AthlonMP in SMP configuration AMD 760MP chipset on a Tyan S2460 Motherboard Software: Linux kernel 2.4.18 Latest DRI cvs, with kernel module from the dri This problem has occurred since X410, and kernel versions back at least through 2.4.16, both with kernel DRM, and the DRM provided with the DRI. I should also note that this only occurs when DRI is enabled. There is no problem switching between X and other virtual terminals when DRI is disabled. I believe this to be the correct forum for this issue, but if it is not, then feel free to forward me to the linux kernel lists or whatever's more appropriate. I thank you in advance for your assistance, --Kalen Petersen _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
