Console freeze but still alive

[Skip Ford]

Ian Dowse wrote:
> In message <20050210210002.GA679 at lucy.pool-70-104-70-104.pskn.east.verizon.net>
> , Skip Ford writes:
>>Ian Dowse wrote:
>>> FYI, I saw something similar once when I was testing my recent
>>> callout changes, but I haven't seen it happen since. If the problem
>>> did just appear around Sunday/Monday then I guess it could be
>>> related...
>>
>>Yes, reverting your callout changes fixes the problem for me.
>>
>>In my case, with your changes the console worked fine unless I
>>started X.  When switching from or exiting X, the screen would
>>stay blank.  The shell still works at that point, I just couldn't
>>see it.
>>
>>Changing video modes with vidcontrol didn't help.  My startup
>>scripts do change the video mode for all screens.  I don't use
>>moused at all FWIW.
> 
> Thanks for the information. Could you try the following patch? It's
> probably unlikely to help, but is the only potential issue I've
> spotted so far.

I think it worked but now I can't be sure.  The screen behaves
correctly when booting with your patch, but now it also seems
to be working correctly without it.  All of a sudden, I can't
get any kernel to behave incorrectly, even though it did that
consistenly over the last few days.

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Skip