VT crashing with XFree86-4.2

[Joe Krahn <jkrahn@nc.rr.com>]

I've been using XFree86-4.2 with a Rage128 lately.
It often hangs in a way that looks like the
virtual termnial is dying. After the hang, I can
restart X (from a remote terminal), but I can no
longer access any text VTs.

Maybe the text consoles aren't dead, but
the video card can no longer be reset to text mode?
Maybe I should try it with an FB console?

Here's a traceback of XFree86:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x40139012 in __writev (fd=20, vector=0xbffff6fc, count=1)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/writev.c:51
#1  0x080d5ad4 in _XSERVTransSocketWritev ()
#2  0x080d61cc in _XSERVTransWritev ()
#3  0x080d0248 in StandardFlushClient ()
#4  0x080cea8f in CloseDownConnection ()
#5  0x080b2f69 in CloseDownClient ()
#6  0x080addbd in Dispatch ()
#7  0x080bd6d8 in main ()
#8  0x4006e627 in __libc_start_main (main=0x80bd1f0 <main>, argc=1,
    ubp_av=0xbffffc04, init=0x806cc5c <_init>, fini=0x816f94c <_fini>,
    rtld_fini=0x4000dcd4 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffbfc)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129       

Joe Krahn