Re: Console question
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:36:59PM +0200, Johannes Zarl wrote:
>
> > > as I just mentioned in another message this is generally a bad
> > > idea, many systems will hang or crash when switching into and out
> > > of X on the fly. If this happens to you then the only workaround that
> > > I know of is to not do it again.
> > >
> > > though some systems can switch into and out of X all day long.
>
> The only condition I know, under which switching between X and console will
> hang your computer, is with the original nvidia-drivers. Since this
> happened to a friend of mine, I don't know if this is still the case,
> though.
>
> OTOH I (and my friend,too) am using framebuffer for the console, so the
> issue might only occur with text-console...
On my machine (SiS6326, no framebuffer, SVGATextMode text consoles)
switching out of X occasionally corrupts the text-mode font memory.
The cure is to reload the font with /usr/bin/setfont.
Pigeon
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