> Rohan Talip wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently compiled the 1.3.25 kernel, rebooted, ran openwin, quit,
> > then ran openwin again and the display hung with a black screen. The
> > machine is still running though, I can telnet etc to it, but there are no
> > messages in the log files.
> >
> > The same thing happended with 1.3.13 or so, but I thought that I had read
> > here that this had been fixed (at least the stuff to do with sockets).
> >
> > This problem is repeatable if the (Tseng ET4000) XF86_W32 Xserver is run
> > as the Xserver in the second openwin (it doesn't happen with the XF86_SVGA
> > Xserver!
>
> Aha, the W32 server. I've been having similar problems for several
> kernels (all 1.3.x as far as I can remember). The main problem for
> me is that ctrl-alt-F? tries to switch vt, but then everything goes
> black and the keyboard seems to freeze. Like you, I can still log in with
> telnet. I've fixed things by killing the W32 server, and then running
> the SVGA server so that things get back to normal.
>
> I've not had time to investigate what's going on, so I just resigned
> myself to running SVGA. Any clues anybody?
>
> >
> > My setup:
> >
> > libc 4.6.27
> > gcc 2.6.3
> > XFree86 3.1.1
> >
>
> My setup:
>
> kernel 1.3.27 (+ emergency patches), but all 1.3.x I can remember.
> libc 5.2.7
> gcc 2.7.0
> XFree86 3.1.2
>
Here's a me too message: I've got the same problems, but with a twist..
I can't get 3.1.2 XF86_W32 to run at all(1.2.9, 1.3.9, 1.3.20, 1.3.28),
and I get the same vt switching problem with 3.1.1 under 1.3.x
System stats:
Herc. Dynamite Pro VL W32P_rev_c
libc 5.0.9 / 4.7.3
gcc 2.7.0
Ben Konosky
konosky@eden.com