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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: XFree86 1.3 crashes under 386BSD
Message-ID: <1993Jul2.120207.3262@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
References: <20ea6n$5v5@email.tuwien.ac.at> <2C33DD07.3337@news.service.uci.edu> <2114d5$lci@aggedor.rmit.OZ.AU>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 12:02:07 GMT
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In article <2114d5$lci@aggedor.rmit.OZ.AU>, rxxram@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Richard A. Muirden) writes:
|> This is interesting - I don't have those kinds of problems with XFree86 1.3 -
|> what I did have the other day is a xdm crash of sorts. basically the mouse
|> worked fine and shot all over and I could even highlight the text in
|> the xconsole window but the keyboard wouldn't input at all and that made it
|> kinda hard to login from the console :)
|>
|> I didn't try a telnet in so I don't know if the whole system had died or
|> what - I just got very impaitent and rebooted :)
|>
|> -richard
You are running 386bsd with pccons, and the effect was that over night your
keyboard was killed? This is a known effect, happening with all console drivers
which abuse /dev/vga as a second entry to /dev/console (i.e. have /dev/vga in
/etc/ttys). In this case syslogd closes and reopens /dev/console at midnight, and
thus grabs the keyboard away from the xserver. There are two possible fixes for that,
one that does counting the open/closes on /dev/console and "/dev/vga" and does the
actual close when both counters are zero (a slightly different alternative uses
the reference count for a vnode for this), or give the server an own device for
raw keyboard access rather than /dev/console. This latter has been done in codrv.
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