[MPlayer-users] Re: [XFree86] mga_vid VT switching hangs

[Billy Biggs]

Ryan Underwood (nemesis-lists at icequake.net):

> Just a quick and silly question:  does anyone know if there is a
> limitation in mga_vid's design, that causes a dead system when
> switching to a VT from X while mplayer is using it?  Of course, this
> is one of those things where the obvious solution is "Don't do that
> then", but I'm curious if I'm the only one that has that problem. :)
> 
> I have a G400MAX running dualhead with Matrox HAL, kernel 2.4.22,
> XFree86 4.3.0 on Debian.

  When you have two drivers for the same hardware in conflict like that,
I would expect problems.  It's pretty well known that this causes hangs.

  -Billy