Hi folks, Kernel is 2.6.14-r3. I am using splash and, probably ore important, a background picture in a framebuffer on every virtual text console.
A long download is running on one text console (ppp with an analogue modem). I am in X and switch back text console to check on the download. Each and every tie I do that, the download rate drops and stalls while TX on the modem goes on flickering. After a short while, stalling is over, the download rate jumps to an insanely high value and eventually drops down to the modem speed again. Usually that means an out-of-order package or a package got dropped because it was corrupted. Now y curious questions: Does switching fro X to a text console with framebuffer disturbs interrupt handling that badly that I get a buffer overrun on the serial port the modem is attached to? From my point of view, that is the most likely explanation. Anyone who actually knows what is happening? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
