livelocks and deadlocks on 8.0BETA2

[Ed Jobs]

On Friday 21 August 2009 18:15, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Ed Jobs <oloringr at gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:52:30 +0300
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> >
> > On Friday 21 August 2009 02:56, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > I have a quad-core system that I updated to 8.0 about 2 weeks
> >
> > ago. It
> >
> > > ran fine until yesterday when I used the PATA/ATAPI DVD drive to
> >
> > read a
> >
> > > disk. Then the fun began. I saw two totally different 
presentations,
> >
> > but
> >
> > > I hope that they both are manifestations of the same problem.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > i have no idea about the second problem, but the 1st one it's 
not
> > fbsd-specific. it has happened to me on a linux box. repeatedly i
> > might add. after a couple of hours playing videos, X would use 
100%
> > of cpu and i wasn't able to switch to a VTY or kill it via ctrl-alt-
> > backspace.
> > i think it might be a problem related to mplayer, but i'm not sure,
> > cause it did not crash, so no bad-behavour log.
> > on the linux box, it's easy to handle (just /etc/rc.d/kdm restart via
> > ssh). But since fbsd doesn't use kdm it's only reboot.
> >
> > i don't use mplayer or X on my fbsd box so i don't really know on 
what
> > version X or mplayer are. The problem has stopped happening on 
the
> > linux box. it uses mplayer 29411-3 and xorg-server 1.6.3-3.
>
> Okay. Since it shows up with very different players (mplayer and 
xine),
> it sounds like an Xorg issue. Could you tell me what graphics card 
you
> are running on the Linux box?
>
> I have an NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT with the NV driver and a pair of
> 1280x1024 screens.

i use the nvidia driver on a GTX280
driver version: 185.18.31
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