ubuntu-x-swat team mailing list archive

[Albert Zeyer <ich@xxxxxxxxx>]

@David:

Read my comment #49. And also the linked Freedesktop bug.
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29975

I read the relevant Xorg-server code and the same bug is still there and
not fixed. There may be various possible reasons why VT_ACTIVATE
succeeds but VT_WAITACTIVE will wait forever because in between, some
other process has grabbed it.

A clean solution would be to do lock somehow the VT switching. I have
read that this is possible, though very complicated and very messy.

Another possible fix/workaround would be do do the VT_ACTIVE in a
endless loop in a separate thread and halt when either the VT_WAITACTIVE
returns or when one of them return an error.

In any case, fixing this at another place than in Xorg would be the
wrong way!

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X,
which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441653

Title:
  radeon graphics mode and console does not start - xf86OpenConsole: VT_WAITACTIVE failed: Interrupted system call