Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:42:24 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system Message-ID: <4980FB70.2040605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901271019470.79233@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901271019470.79233@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
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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? -- Glen Barber
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