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Date:      Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:40:46 -0800
From:      "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com>
To:        Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: startx hangs locally but not over ssh
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Erich Dollansky
<erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>> >>
>> >> If I ssh localhost and startx, it works normally.
>> >>
>> >> I'm running FreeBSD 10.0 and it's a Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 with
>> >> USE_XORG_NEW undefined.
>> >>
>> > try to add WITH_GALLIUM and compile X again.
>> >
>> > X will work via ssh as it does not have anything to display on that
>> > machine then. It is the graphic card driver which is your problem.
>> >
>> > Erich
>>
>> grep -ir "WITH_GALLIUM" /usr/ports/x11*
>>
>> 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



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