Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:56:26 +0100 (CET) | From | Richard Guenther <> | Subject | Re: Broken colors on console with 2.4.0-textXX |
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, James Simmons wrote:
> > Unfortunately I cannot confirm this. Checked 2.4.0-test10 and the problem > > is still there. I digged further and it seems to be a race condition(?) > > triggered by swapped out stuff - because just starting X and switching > > back to the console works fine, but as I start some memory-consuming stuff > > (I have only 32Megs of ram) and then switch back to the console its > > completely garbagled the first time and black the second time and later. > > I have seen this problem before. The problem is the X server is the one > that sets the hardware back to vga text mode. Under heavy stress the X > server can fail and the hardware is left in a undeterminate state. I have > started on working to solve this problem but it will be something for > 2.5.X since it requires quite a bit of change to vgacon and the console > system. My recent vga patches where early attempts at this but they are > still incomplete.
Umm, so why does this not happen with 2.2.X at all? Also the system is not really stressed, but I simply do startx, inside an xterm go to some random source, make -j, wait till the compile is complete and then switch back to the console - its just that it seems that swapped out X server or console stuff causes this.
I consider this quite a showstopper for 2.4.0.
Richard.
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