is rawhide still F8? X and VT-switching borked.

Thu Nov 1 15:27:41 UTC 2007

On 11/01/2007 08:50 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 22:01 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> I just did a new install of today's rawhide on a new Lenovo T61.  X is 
>> stuck with a stipple background and "X" cursor, and I can't switch 
>> away to any other VT--it blinks for a moment and then returns to X.  
>> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't do anything at all.
> 
> X has not changed in rawhide.

http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=70cb97935b8859f27296772885104b599f560576

Says the X server should always retry when it gets EINTR and there
is supposed to be an X.org patch for that.