Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 2 Nov 2000 23:08:44 -0800 (PST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | RE: Linux-2.4.0-test10 |
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> I have a similar hardware list and I don't observe any of these problems on > 2.4.0-test10x. Is it possibly a hardware conflict somewhere? > > What I do see occasionally is if X was ever heavy on the memory usage (say > I've run GIMP for a couple of hours) then the text console's font set gets > trashed until the next reboot. Console driver failing to reset something?
No! The X server resets the VGA mode including resetting the fonts. See xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/vgahw to see how XF4.0 switchs between X and vgacon. It see under heavy pressure X fails to reset the video hardware on it own :-(
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