From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 06:49:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA601065686 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:49:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alainfabry@belgacom.net) Received: from mailrelay004.isp.belgacom.be (mailrelay004.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.6.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B07B8FC0A for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:49:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alainfabry@belgacom.net) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAGIygknDDR9Z/2dsb2JhbADKaoQQBg Received: from event89.event.belbone.be (HELO localhost) ([195.13.31.89]) by relay.skynet.be with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2009 07:49:56 +0100 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:49:09 +0100 From: "Alain G. Fabry" To: Luke Dean Message-ID: <20090130064909.GA8440@desmo.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> References: <4980FB70.2040605@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Glen Barber , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:49:59 -0000 On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:18:10PM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote: > > >Luke Dean wrote: > >> > >>The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source > >>today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386 > >>7-STABLE > >> > >>My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure", plus I added > >>Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > >>to the "ServerLayout" section, per /usr/ports/UPDATING, since I'm not > >>running hal and I can't get keyboard or mouse otherwise. > >> > >>Everything appears to be great. My applications launch much faster than > >>they did before the upgrade. Shutting down and restarting X is the only > >>problem I'm having. This was not a problem before I upgraded to the new > >>Xorg. > >> > >>This is a desktop system. I launch X with "startx" from the console. I > >>can shut down X either by exiting windowmaker or by killing the Xorg > >>server with ctrl+alt+backspace. There appear to be some failure messages > >>on the console when I shut down X, but I don't know what they mean or > >>if they're important. I'm attaching a log below. I don't see any stuck > >>processes after the shutdown, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking > >>for. > >> > >>If I later restart X with "startx", some corrupted graphical junk appears > >>on the screen and the system freezes solid. Keyboard and mouse are > >>completely unresponsive. NumLock light won't change. I can't ssh into > >>the system either. > >>I can reproduce this at will, but my hard drives don't like it. > >> > >>Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? > >>Do I need to switch to hal? > >> > > > >Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? > > > > Well.. yeah... See my second paragraph above. > Is there something in there that I'm not seeing that explains why > restarting X would hang the whole system? > _______________________________________________ You by any chance don't have dual-headed X configured? I had a similar problem and after removing my second ServerLayout section + RgbPath + 'AllowEmptyInput' in xorg.conf, everything seems to work again (even my dual display ???) Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "PANEL" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" EndSection # Removed after upgrade xorg... #Section "ServerLayout" # Identifier "X.org Configured" # Screen 0 "PANEL" 0 0 # Screen 1 "VGA_1" RightOf "PANEL" # InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" # InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" # Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" # Option "Xinerama" "true" #EndSection > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"