Re: xlock kills console on xp1000/permedia2

[Falk Hueffner <falk hueffner student uni-tuebingen de>]

Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de> writes:

> We have several XP1000 and xlock kills console access on it, e.g. if
> xlock has run for a while then the console no longer responds. The
> monitor does not display anything, nor seem keystrokes to have an
> effect. The only way to restore display is to shut down the machine,
> turn it off (otherwise display remains blank) and turn it back on. The
> only symptom I could see is that X is eating 100% cpu time when this
> happens. The machine is perfectly accessible over the net however.
> 
> This happens both with XFree 4.1 and 4.2. The machines are build alike
> with
> 
> Display controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01)
> 
> I am running out of ideas where to look for the problem. Any hints
> (aside the obvious and non ideal of not locking the screen) are
> very welcome.

Probably one of the graphics hack uses a weird X command, like
ellipsis, that is otherwise never used, and triggers a bug in the X
server. So you could try to find out whether it's a specific mode that
actually triggers it.

BTW I have the same graphics card, but I don't dare testing it right
now :)

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	Falk