> > > But it is still lacking stability. I have experienced several freezes > > > of the console server. (I could still telnet to my box.) Another > > > annoyance is that, once you have run 'console -d vga -d pc_kbd -d > > > generic_speaker /dev/vcs', you cannot exit console without > > > rebooting. Just killing the program freezes the screen. > > > > Interesting. I wonder if it has to do with that dlclose problem. Could you > > > please test my patch to fix this? I hope this will fix the bug. > > What patch? What exactly does it fix?
Ahh, sorry, the discussion was on bug-hurd. http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2003-05/msg00096.html The patch fixes a problem I had with shutting down the console when starting the console-client from within GDB. Perhaps the problem is not only triggered from within GDB. > > Please report the other bugs, I'll have a look at them. > > > > ps. Do you have the same problem when not using the generic_speaker? > > My speaker is broken and because of that I don't use that driver. It > > is also possible that is the cause of the instability. > > Well, I'll try that. I don't need that beep-beep anyway. :) Thanks, Marco