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From: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: Broken colors on console with 2.4.0-textXX
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On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, James Simmons wrote:

> 
> > Sure - but this was always the case. And using 2.2 with the same
> > (or more) stress the Xserver is still able to set the video hardware
> > back to vga text mode. I just want to know whats the difference
> > between 2.2 and 2.4 that causes failure in 2.4.
> 
> I don't think it is the console system. I bet if you stress 2.2 even more
> you will get the same results.

Ok, obviously I'm not happy with this - I'll try to stress 2.2, but
it never happened there. With 2.4 its nearly _always_ the case (on
32Megs ram you get into swapping very fast with X and gnome) - so, to
repeat, I'm not happy with the current 2.4 situation.

Richard.

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