VT switch crashes are usually driver bugs (particularly when they are capable of locking the system). You might want to try disabling the DRI (don't load the module) to see if that makes it go away. Mark. On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Jim Osborn wrote: > I often run two X servers, one on VC7 and the other on VC8, on an > Intel Linux machine. Way too often the machine locks up, requiring a > hard reset, when I switch from either VC running an X server. I've > tried switching from, say VC7 to VC6, a text console, then to VC8 on > the theory that the system had more difficulty going directly from > one X server to another, but the crash rate is the same as when > switching directly from VC7 to VC8. This process has allowed me to > conclude that the crash occurs when switching *from* the X server, > not when starting the X VC. It never crashes on VC startup. > > Can anyone suggest a fix? Or a debug technique? I never see > anything useful in the .X.err log that's left behind, but maybe I'm > not appreciating some final message there. > > I'm running X 4.5.0 and KDE 3.4.2, about to move to KDE 3.5. The > kernel is 2.4.23. Mgag200 video with no hal. > > Fwiw, it never crashes if I shut down the KDE session on the second X > VC. And it never crashes if only one X server is running. I suppose > that's a potential workaround, but a pita. Not as big a pita as a > reboot, though. > > TIA, > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
