Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:06 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Hein <jhein@timing.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCBSD & X11 ugh Message-ID: <47D712B6.4050901@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <18391.4566.644877.159621@gromit.timing.com> References: <47D6E6B4.30403@elischer.org> <18391.4566.644877.159621@gromit.timing.com>
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John Hein wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote at 13:08 -0700 on Mar 11, 2008: > > So, I tried out PCBSD on a Dell "DHP" (what ever that is) (made feb '05). > > > > it installs great > > but when I run boot it, (FreeBSD comes up fine) teh X server goes into > > an infinite loop somewhere. > > > > 168 root 1 0 0 148M 6976K rdnrel 0:57 93.85% Xorg > > > > and the screen stays black. > > the fan goes onto "tornado" mode and it just sits there. > > > > > > attempting to send a signal -9 to the x server has no effect so its > > stuck in the kernel somewhere. > > > > does anyone have any X11 foo (or PCBSD foo) to let me know how to get > > the damed server to do what it did in install, when it was just fine. > > possibly I need to disable some kernel extension feature.. > > If it worked on install, but not now, that seems to point to an config > difference. I have no great xorg foo either, but when I hit something > like this, I start commenting stuff out in xorg.conf (things like dri > - particularly if you are seeing issues in the kernel). I made it work by doing: cd /boot/kernel mv drm.ko drm_hold.ko I don't know why this was needed, but my thinking was that if the server was stuck in the kernel, it probably was going in via some kernel module and that looked a likely candidate amongst those loaded.. :-)
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