Console freeze but still alive

[Skip Ford]

Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > Ive found that it is not 100% certain to freeze which has made my
> > testing so far worthless. :(
> > I have applied Ian's callout patch and after about a dozen reboots the
> > console has not stopped. It looks promising so far but I will keep my
> > eye on it.
> 
> Same thing here.  I switched between console and X a few times, played
> with my mouse in console mode and used my computer for a while, and I've
> not seen a console freeze yet.  But I have not been able to guess how
> to repeat the problem, so ...  I'll go on using my computer :-).

Are either of you using a splash screen?

I've found that an unpatched tree using splash_bmp, if the image
can't be displayed then the console eventually messes up in the
way I described.  If it can be displayed, the console continues to
work fine.

Using the patch he posted, it works correctly either way.

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