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Re: Lockup since 2.4.4 when switching from X to console

To: Jani Jaakkola <jjaakkol@cs.Helsinki.FI>
Subject: Re: Lockup since 2.4.4 when switching from X to console
From: Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:40:57 +0200
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108282215200.799-100000@dogbert.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com

Jani Jaakkola wrote:
> 

> There are lots of motherboards around which have somewhat broken APM
> support or at least do not work correctly with Linux APM. Many of these
> machines just hang, when console blanking or unblanking using APM is
> attempted. This is not XFS spesific and is not even 2.4 kernel spesific.

See, the point is that with a vanilla kernel it works without a problem
but with the kdb patch applied it locks up. So somehow the kdb patch
breaks the apm stuff and this should be investigated and, if possible,
resolved.

Juri

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- Re: Lockup since 2.4.4 when switching from X to console
  - From: Jani Jaakkola <jjaakkol@cs.Helsinki.FI>

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