From: Juan <piernas@ditec.um.es>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VGA blank causes hang with 2.4.18
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:04:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C9237BC.CB48D7CA@ditec.um.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203150252.g2F2qVM15051@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
Richard Gooch escribió:
>
> Hi, all. Here's a perverse problem: when the screen blanks (text
> console) with 2.4.18, the machine hangs. No ping response, no magic
> SysReq response. I didn't have this problem with 2.4.7.
>
> The command I used to configure screen blanking was:
> setterm -blank 10 -powerdown 0
>
> This is an Athalon 850 MHz on a Gigabyte GA-7ZM motherboard.
>
> I managed to waste a few hours chasing this, wondering why the machine
> hung a while after boot. Of course, I first blamed the jobs that were
> started on it soon after boot. Turns out the jobs are not to blame!
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard....
I have had a similar problem for a long time with different versions of
Linux kernel.
This problem rarely occurs and it always does when I am in a text
console. MagicSysRq does not help :-(.
Bye!!!!
--
D. Juan Piernas Cánovas
Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores
Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia
Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-15 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-15 2:52 VGA blank causes hang with 2.4.18 Richard Gooch
2002-03-15 3:02 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-15 3:09 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-15 18:04 ` Juan [this message]
2002-03-15 19:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 1:22 ` Richard Gooch
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