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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: PinkFreud <pf-kernel@mirkwood.net>
Cc: Chris Ahna <christopher.j.ahna@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid a race in complete_change_console()
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 23:48:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011028234859.C20280@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0110281202130.15433-100000@eriador.mirkwood.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0110281202130.15433-100000@eriador.mirkwood.net>

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:25:14PM -0500, PinkFreud wrote:
> Chris, THANK YOU!  I've been having a problem on my SMP system for months
> now, where if I started X, switched to a text console, and then back to X,
> the system would lock up.  Your patch actually fixed it!
> 

I have seen this on 2.2 also.  Maybe it should be backported...

I've since changed my video card (from number nine t2r to permedia II),
upgraded X, and stopped switching from X to console so much...  So, I
haven't come across this problem since.

Mike

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-29  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-28 17:25 [PATCH] Avoid a race in complete_change_console() PinkFreud
2001-10-28 17:38 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-29  7:48 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-26  4:07 Chris Ahna
2001-10-26 11:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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