Re: XFree86 freeze after switching to console
Yup.
This is a bug in the ATI mobility driver; it hangs the bus. Sigh.
Seems to be fixed in current XFree86 CVS; I can again switch VT's.
- Jim
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jim.Gettys@hp.com
From: Christian Gennerat <xgen@noos.fr>
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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 12:00:54 +0200
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Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.x
Subject: XFree86 freeze after switching to console
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xserver-xfree86-dbg 4.2.1-0pre1v2
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.4.8) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility LW (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x4c57)
(II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=12 min=20000 max=35000;
xclk=16600
(==) RADEON(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(--) RADEON(0): Virtual size is 1600x1200 (pitch 1632)
(**) RADEON(0): Mode "1600x1200"
(**) RADEON(0): Mode "1280x1024"
(**) RADEON(0): Mode "1024x768"
(==) RADEON(0): DPI set to (75, 75)
(**) RADEON(0): Using AGP 4x mode
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Switching to console Ctl-Alt-F1
OK
Switching back to Xfree Alt-F7
screen is weirdly refreshed, and keyboard is freezed.
with ssh, I can run top:
13:05:09 up 35 min, 3 users, load average: 1.09, 0.75, 0.3
62 processes: 60 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.9% user, 17.6% system, 0.0% nice, 81.5% idle
Mem: 256056K total, 97700K used, 158356K free, 7864K buffers
Swap: 401552K total, 0K used, 401552K free, 43460K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
425 root 20 -10 52964 9372 4688 R < 99.5 3.6 6:04 XFree86-debug
710 root 10 0 940 940 736 R 0.9 0.3 0:00 top
1 root 9 0 472 472 408 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 init
killing X or gdm, or X and gdm do nothing, when X is restarted,
the same weird screen is displayed. No keyboard input accepted.
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