[ltp] T40p Crashing

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:47:23PM -0700, Stefan Farestam wrote:
> Note that it doesn't crash, but the display never comes back.
> The distinction is important, because you can take the machine
> down gracefully by first doing <ctrl><backspace> to kill the
> X server and then <ctrl><alt><delete> to reboot the machine.
> 
> If the screen is black, then I also occasionally have luck
> with:
>    a) Change the Virtual terminal to 1: <ctrl><alt><F1>
>    b) Put the machine into standby:     <Fn><F3>
>    c) Wake up from standby:             <Fn>
>    d) Switch back to the Xserver:       <ctrl><alt><F7>

This is an X server issue, not a kernel issue.  If you switch out to a
Virtual console before suspending, things work quite smoothly.  

I'm told that an XFree86 server built from the latest CVS sources has
this bug fixed.  Unfortunately, it was fixed after the 4.3 release of
Xfree86.   

						- Ted