Xorg 1.6.0 uses 100% CPU in gnome+gdm

[Kent Stewart]

On Friday 15 May 2009 12:41:13 pm Tom Evans wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I upgraded kernel, world and ports from ~7.1 RELEASE to RELENG_7 of
> yesterday, and now Xorg constantly chews CPU. I'm running:
>
> FreeBSD jacob.nubtek.com 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #2: Thu May 14
> 20:37:49 BST 2009
> root at jacob.nubtek.com:/usr/obj/usr/data/FreeBSD/RELENG_7/src/sys/LOST
> i386
>
> I've double checked that all ports are up to date, and was going to
> blame some bug in the nvidia binary driver, but it also exhibits it if I
> use the 'nv' or 'vesa' driver as well - I've not tested nouveau. The
> nvidia.ko module was loaded whilst running with nv and vesa, would that
> matter?
>

I have had this happen several times. It always went away after I force built 
xorg and its dependancies. My personal opinion is that something was built 
out of order and while your ports may be current, something used an old 
linkage.

Kent

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