Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:50:26 GMT From: "ALeine" <aleine@austrosearch.net> To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/74265: XFree86 Version 4.4.0 with KDE 3.1 freezes up in death loop Message-ID: <200411271850.iARIoQZh026536@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/74265; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "ALeine" <aleine@austrosearch.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: "S. C. Sprong" <s.c.sprong@student.utwente.nl> Subject: Re: ports/74265: XFree86 Version 4.4.0 with KDE 3.1 freezes up in death loop Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:47:29 -0800 (PST) After a few more days of paying close attention to my XFree86 usage I can confirm that the problem seems to be triggered by scrolling. It usually happens when I'm using the Opera browser (Opera 7.54 final). I've switched to the Firefox browser today and there have been no lock-ups so far, but the color blotching problem is still present. I have a feeling this might be related to some kind of memory leak. I think we can exclude hardware issues because I have also been running previous versions of FreeBSD and XFree86 on the same hardware for years without any problems. Furthermore, I think we can rule out kernel issues because the problem appears in an identical way on both 4.10-STABLE and 5.3-STABLE. I have traced the problem to the same location in XFree86 as you have done in Xorg and checking the sources in the xorg/xc/programs/Xserver/os directories shows that there are no major changes between XFree86 and Xorg in that part of the code tree, so there must be a bug in how that code is used because the code itself seems not to have changed in a major way since 2001. When I find some free time I plan to check the CVS diffs for the XFree86 sources to see what changed since the last version, which did not have this problem. Can you do the same for Xorg? Which is the latest version you used that did not have this problem? ALeine ___________________________________________________________________ WebMail FREE http://mail.austrosearch.net
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