Hi,
we have seen it, too. Seems to be graphics card dependend (ati ones are not
effected, but nvidia cards are ) and what powersaving mode is enabled in the
BIOS (Suspend for the Monitor causes a lock up when switching from X to the
console, but when using VSync/empty screen (or something like this) all works
fine).
Bernd
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 07:38, Michael Gruner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since 2.4.17 I have got a problem: trying to switch from graphical
> screen to console or to stop my X-session my box freezes. The screen
> gets black and nothing more happens. Pressing any keys or trying to
> switch to another console the box does not do anything. Only o cold
> restart brings the box up again.
>
> Hardware is a MSI6126 with a 440bx chipset. The processor is a 400 MHZ
> Celeron on a MS6905 ppga 370 to slot 1 cpu converter. In former times
> there were 256MB RAM in there but I got a lot of segfaults during
> compiling the kernel. So i removed 128MB and now compiling runs fine.
> So I don't think it might be a hardware failure?!
>
> Problems had be seen very often with kernel 2.4.18, now with 2.4.19-rc1
> not as often as before. That means: it happens maybe 1 or 2 times a
> week. The box is shutted down every day.
>
> Are there any hints for solving this problem?
>
> best regards,
> Michael
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