Re: SIGSEGV kills X -bpp 16 on switch to VT

Article View: comp.os.linux.x

Article #103

#103

From: James Harper
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 00:00

17 lines
1343 bytes

Peter B. West (p.west@mailbox.uq.edu.au) wrote:
: Has anyone else had the problem of X being killed by a SIGSEGV when they
: switch to a virtual terminal?  It only happens when I am running 16 bit
: colour; 8 bit is OK.  It doesn't usually happen immediately I switch,
: but fairly soon after.  My startup is via xdm.

: I am running version 3.1.2 on an AST Bravo Pentium with an on-board
: CL5434 controller.  OS is from RedHat 4.0; don't know the kernel version
: off hand.

i have a hippo 15 486DX4/100 with a pci cl5434 and experience exactly the same
problem. i always run 16bpp so i cannot say if it doesn't happen in other modes

bit of a pain sometimes, but there is something newer than 3.1.2 isn't there?

james

Technical Details

Message-ID: <5ia3q9$lg8$1@sheoak.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <33429fe9.4906067@news.uq.edu.au>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 102983,676e3dd9d7b9e806
X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public
X-Google-Thread: f4bda,676e3dd9d7b9e806
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public
From: loon@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au (James Harper)
Subject: Re: SIGSEGV kills X -bpp 16 on switch to VT
Date: 1997/04/07
Message-ID: <5ia3q9$lg8$1@sheoak.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au>
X-Deja-AN: 231229110
References: <33429fe9.4906067@news.uq.edu.au>
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.x,aus.computers.linux
Organization: La Trobe University, Bendigo
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,aus.computers.linux

Reply to Parent Message