On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 11:36, nate wrote: > S Yuval said: > > Ever since I installed Debian, I have to hard boot at least 3 times a day, > > because X windows crashes and hangs the machine. This usually happens when > > the system is busy installing programs, or doing some other resource > > consuming job in one of the virtual consoles (X itself included), and I > > choose to flip between consoles. However, when I used Red Hat 7.1 and even > > don't flip between consoles when X is loaded. this is always a bad > idea. some video hardware flips out and will lock up. Other video > hardware may behave better. I've seen this on X for at least 5 years > on different X servers/drivers on linux. > > as far as I know, most commercial X servers (IRIX, AIX, HPUX, Solaris) > do not allow switching either, at least I've never figured out how > to switch on those systems. > > nate > While I had problems with some earlier 2.4 kernels and framebuffer when X was running, the only time console switching is a problem for me with an older ATI card now is if I do it from the workspace on which Zapping is running in overlay mode. I have to ssh in from another machine (which with my setup, means over the Internet) and start trying to restart X and gdm and the like (doesn't often work, so I'm down to hoping at least the Magic-SysRq works - even that frequently is unavailable, so hello reset button :( ) But other than that specific problem, console switching, even with Framebuffer, is working fine here. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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