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Re: x-window-system



> > > But it is still lacking stability. I have experienced several freezes
> > > of the console server. (I could still telnet to my box.) Another
> > > annoyance is that, once you have run 'console -d vga -d pc_kbd -d
> > > generic_speaker /dev/vcs', you cannot exit console without
> > > rebooting. Just killing the program freezes the screen.
> > 
> > Interesting. I wonder if it has to do with that dlclose problem. Could you
> 
> > please test my patch to fix this? I hope this will fix the bug.
> 
> What patch? What exactly does it fix?

Ahh, sorry, the discussion was on bug-hurd. 

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2003-05/msg00096.html

The patch fixes a problem I had with shutting down the console when
starting the console-client from within GDB. Perhaps the problem is not
only triggered from within GDB.

> > Please report the other bugs, I'll have a look at them.
> > 
> > ps. Do you have the same problem when not using the generic_speaker?
> > My speaker is broken and because of that I don't use that driver. It
> > is also possible that is the cause of the instability.
> 
> Well, I'll try that. I don't need that beep-beep anyway. 

:)

Thanks,
Marco



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