I'm asking for aid in triaging this issue to find out if a bug should be reported, and if so, against what. Occasionally, zgv will sometimes cause my laptop, an IBM ThinkPad T23 with video adapter [1] to hardlock. It will manifest itself as the screen going either completely black, or a distorted version of the last image I viewed. Sysrq magic will not help me get a functional system back, nor will switching to a different VT. I've attempted to ssh into the machine, without success, and it won't even reply to ping. I have not been able to isolate what exact set of circumstances causes the system to lock up: it appears to be at random at this point. I have attempted to use chipsets VGA, S3, SAVAGE, and FBDEV all without success -- all always produce unusable output. VESA is the only one that at least has a visible picture. Also below are my /etc/vga/libvga.config [2] and /etc/zgv.conf [3], both stripped of all comments. I'll also be grabbing a couple other svgalib programs in an effort to eliminate zgv. [1] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR [5333:8c2e] (rev 05) [2] mouse IMPS2 mouse_accel_type power mouse_accel_mult 60 mouse_accel_thresh 4 mouse_accel_power 0.8 mouse_accel_offset 30 mouse_wheel_steps 18 kbd_only_root_keymaps HorizSync 30 50 VertRefresh 56 72 chipset VESA [/2] [3] visual off mode-all-bad mode-good 1024 768 24 mode-good 1024 768 16 mode-good 1024 768 8 viewer-start-mode 1024 768 24 fs-start-mode 1024 768 8 zoom off centre on force-viewer-8bit off pgm-truecol off [/3] -- _ Brian Ryans 8B2A 54C4 E275 8CFD 8A7D 5D0B 0AD0 B014 C112 13D0 . ( ) ICQ UIN: 43190205 | Mail/MSN/Jabber: BrianLRyans@gmail.com ..: X ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML mail and v-cards: asciiribbon.org / \ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
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