Re: Apt

[Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>]

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote:

> 1) For no apparent resaon, X will suddenly blast itself on top of whatever
> VC I'm using.  From that time on, it will apparently 'own' both VC 7, and
> the VC it blasted onto.  It is often possible to fix this by explicitly
> running chvt <vcno> (preferably from a telnet session).  However, then the
> keymaps will be buggered.  Careful use of chvt and kbd_mode is required
> over telnet to restore things.

This bug may or may not have been fixed in the x86 XFree stuff, but at
least in the version which shipped with RedHat 4.2/intel it existed. The
laptop I have has been afflicted with that problem several times.

-D



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