Bug#435040: Still have this bug

[Kari Pahula]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:07:07PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Actually, UseFBDev has been removed in 6.8.0. So we are not dealing with
> the same problem anymore. It is the same problem that you observed
> earlier when you tried disabling UseFBDev.

I don't think that UseFBDev has ever mattered, other than via causing
an extra delay at some critical point during VT switching, which has
helped to avoid the crash.  Attaching strace to X or even raising the
nice value and running a busy loop in other process seems to make the
freeze bug go away, too.

But even when there's no freeze, I still have at least 10 seconds'
delay before I get to use X after pressing alt-F11 (yes, I have 10
virtual consoles), so I guess the whole issue is rather moot unless
that gets cut down to some sane duration.  I guess I would spend my
time better teaching some WM to give me as quick an access to an xterm
as the flick of ctrl-alt-F1 rather than hope that this all gets fixed.