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From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:21:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: startx hangs locally but not over ssh
To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Erich Dollansky
<erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:40:46 -0800
> "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Erich Dollansky
>> <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:17:42 -0800
>> > "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Erich Dollansky
>> >> <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:41:54 -0800
>> >> > "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Does anyone have any ideas on why startx would cause Xorg to
>> >> >> consume 100% cpu and stuck in RUN state. kill -9 does nothing to
>> >> >> it and forced to reboot to kill it.
>
> did you try the kill as root?
>> >>
yes, nothing

>> >> didn't show anything, what does that do? The ati driver worked
>> >> fine in FreeBSD 9.2. This card doesn't support KMS as it's an
>> >> older laptop video card.
>> >
>> > if KMS is not supported, then take the VESA driver and see what
>> > happens.
>> >
>> vesa works fine but wanted it to work with the ati driver which has
>> acceleration
>
> Ok, did you upgrade FreeBSD?
>
> The recompile at least hal and the video driver.
it was a fresh install. Now I am able to reproduce it only half the
time after recompiling the kernel with the latest 10 stable.