Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:27:09 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>, "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Subject: Re: x11 hangs unkillable on 10.0-BETA1 Message-ID: <20131027132709.3f305da5@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vpiMPp6kBkXAJ%2BUfiN%2Bz336WiZovcYXW2c3i9eSTZBSA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20131027011829.GA98327@lyxys.ka.sub.org> <CAHHBGkps8wHbkMqQBx4zw=eV9v3MkuC1KaJmLCSAVKB3WN3ojA@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1vpiMPp6kBkXAJ%2BUfiN%2Bz336WiZovcYXW2c3i9eSTZBSA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:10:58 -0700 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:31 PM, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On 26 October 2013 21:18, Wolfgang Zenker > > <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> wrote: > > > Testing 10.0-BETA1 on an old IBM T42p Laptop, after a while Xorg > > > starts to use 100% CPU, stops to update the screen and does not > > > accept any input anymore. I can still work from remote via ssh; > > > top shows Xorg using up 100% CPU most of the time. Trying to kill > > > or even kill -9 the Xorg process does not result in an error > > > message but fails to terminate the process. > > > > > > What information would be helpful to debug this? > > > > > > > Screams of the tormented? Basically, I debug [X] by disabling > > features until it doesn't lock up, & then I use those settings until > > it causes lockups (from updates). > > > > mplayer would reliably lock Xorg if I used (or allowed) vo=sdl > > or higher (gl, gl2, whatever). vo=x11 a) never locks up xorg & > > 4) doesn't allow resizing of windows to scale the player. Oh > > f'well. > > > > Summary: > > Xorg on FreeBSD is a crap shoot based on your card. IIRC a T42 > > is one of those terrible i915 or something video cards. Ugh. > > > > I am surprised by this. I have a T42 with the Intel 3000 graphics > card and it has worked quite well for me. I use mplayer, vlc, and > (primarily) xine on it. I use the default video output device for > all. I thought the default was Xv, but I could well be wrong. It's > been working for me on stable for well over a year. I started using > it when kib made patches available, but I have been running the > committed version. > > Just to confirm, you have WITH_NEW_XORG=YES and WITH_KMS=YES in > /etc/make.conf and have built all X ports and the kernel with these > options. the GENERIC kernel did for me. But I needed this to get X running: WITH_NEW_XORG=true WITH_KMS=true WITH_GALLIUM=true I installed FreeBSD 10.0 BETA1 last Tuesday. X might be running since Wednesday without problems. Erich
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