Re: 2.4.18-rc1 freezing while switching to console

From: Athanasius (Athanasius@gurus.tf)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 08:32:07 EST

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:40:04PM +0300, Advisories wrote:
> Tested system:
> CPU: AMD Duron 700
> MB: GA-7ZM
> RAM: 256Mb
> VIDEO: nVidia TNT AGP
>
> kernel 2.4.18-rc1 with same configuration
>
> system started, X login message diplayed
> when pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 system freeze with blank screen :(
> only _reset_ can help

   You don't mention if you use FrameBuffer or plain text console. I
used FB with a GF2MX400 for a while and encountered this same problem
(in various 2.4.17/2.4.18-pre's), so went back to plain text as I spend
most of my time in X11 anyway. All FB gained me was Tux at boot-time
*;-).

-Ath 

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