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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!latcs5.lat.oz.au!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Xserver crashes (repost) + future platform Message-ID: <CBzCrz.Ayv@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@latcs5.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 00:16:47 GMT Sender: news@latcs1.lat.oz.au (news) Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Nntp-Posting-Host: latcs5.lat.oz.au Lines: 41 Hi, I am running 386bsd 0.1 + pk 0.2.4 + XFree86-1.2 (using syscons-2.0)! Recently I have run into frequent crashes in X server, when running ico. I am not very concerned about what programs are running, but I just wonder why it will crash that easily. I just try to avoid X crashing in the middle of some serious work. On the other hand, I have run out of disk space, and taps into the reserved area of disk space (ie df will show 104% of disk usage). I wonder if this is causing the problem ? So, is there a way of restoring the virtual console to text mode ? I attempt to use syscons ioctl as follows : main() { FILE *fp; int fn; /* tty02 is the virtual console which I run X all the time */ if ((fp = fopen("/dev/tty02", "rw")) == NULL) { perror("textmode"); exit(-1); } fn = fileno(fp); ioctl(fn, CONS_80x25TEXT, 0); /* can't actually remember the ioctl constant */ } But it doesn't switch me back to text mode (80x25). I wonder if anyone has the solution for this ? Also, having installed syscons-2.0 as my console driver, I still can't run more than 1 X server on each different virtual console. Has anyone successully run more than 1 X server with syscons-2.0 in each of the virtual console ? Could you please drop me a few lines how you get that working ? One last thing. Will the port of 386bsd go as far as onto Alpha AXP, and PowerPC based PCs in the future ? Thanks in advance! -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au