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

[Monty]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:21:57AM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

FWIW, I have this exact same problem using Matrox's own MTX driver
with my Parhelia in triplehead stretched mode.

Monty