@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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
