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From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problems shutting down when running XFree86
Date: 25 Feb 1993 22:50:10 GMT
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In article <DFR.93Feb25102410@rhino.ioc.co.uk> dfr@ioc.co.uk (Doug Rabson) writes:
>I have just installed 386bsd, patchkit-0.2.1 and XFree86-1.2 on my
>386sx machine.  I am using codrv-0.1.1 for my console driver.
>
>My problem is that when I try to shut the system down while X is
>running, the system freezes instead of shutting down.  The same thing
>happens whether I use reboot(8) or shutdown(8).  The system just stops
>with the disk activity light on continuously.  Has anyone else seen
>this?  Are there any fixes?
>--

Yep, I also see this.  I have a 486 DX-33 with ET4000 VGA card and am running
Chris Demetriou's com driver.  If anyone wants to make a more detailed
hardware/software comparison, please e-mail me.

				- Larry F.


E-mail: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca