From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 11 23:16:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC047106566C for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:16:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outB.internet-mail-service.net (outB.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FB68FC12 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:16:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:20 -0700 Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3942D6004; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47D712B6.4050901@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:06 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Hein References: <47D6E6B4.30403@elischer.org> <18391.4566.644877.159621@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <18391.4566.644877.159621@gromit.timing.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCBSD & X11 ugh X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:16:07 -0000 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.. :-)