Bug 1762

Summary:	Hotkey to console vty causes system to crash
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Bruce H. McIntosh <scotsman>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	high
Version:	6.8.1
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Bruce H. McIntosh 2004-11-02 06:14:40 UTC

System: XP1800,512MB,GeForce4 MX440, Voodoo3 3000, Permedia2, Slackware 9.1,
2.6.9 kernel, Dropline Gnome 2.8 w/ Xorg 6.8.1, xinerama, vesafb running on GF4

Attempting to hotkey to console vtys causes the NV screen to lose hsync, both
other screens to lock, and the X server to hang.  Occasionally recovery is
possible by ssh-ing to the box and doing a kill -1 on gdm.  This condition
occurs with kernels 2.6.6 and 2.6.9, with or without a framebuffer console.  It
did not occur with Xorg 6.7.

Comment 1 Bruce H. McIntosh 2004-12-14 06:09:59 UTC

Note that the problem also occurs with or without Xinerama.

Comment 2 Bruce H. McIntosh 2005-03-15 13:51:40 UTC

I've since upgraded the system to xorg 6.8.2.  Preliminary indications are that
hotkeying to text consoles works.  Will have to reconfigure system sometime in
the next few days to use a framebuffer console and see if hotkey works under
that circumstance.

Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2005-07-03 13:25:25 UTC

reported as working.  please reopen if this is still an issue.

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