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Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:10:58 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
Cc:        "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: x11 hangs unkillable on 10.0-BETA1
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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.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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