PCBSD & X11 ugh

[Julian Elischer]

John Hein wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote at 13:08 -0700 on Mar 11, 2008:
>  > So, I tried out PCBSD on a Dell "DHP" (what ever that is) (made feb '05).
>  > 
>  > it installs great
>  > but when I run boot it, (FreeBSD comes up fine) teh X server goes into
>  > an infinite loop somewhere.
>  > 
>  >    168 root          1   0    0   148M  6976K rdnrel   0:57 93.85% Xorg
>  > 
>  > and the screen stays black.
>  > the fan goes onto "tornado" mode and it just sits there.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > attempting to send a signal -9 to the x server has no effect so its
>  > stuck in the kernel somewhere.
>  > 
>  > does anyone have any X11 foo (or PCBSD foo) to let me know how to get
>  > the damed server to do what it did in install, when it was just fine.
>  > possibly I need to disable some kernel extension feature..
> 
> If it worked on install, but not now, that seems to point to an config
> difference.  I have no great xorg foo either, but when I hit something
> like this, I start commenting stuff out in xorg.conf (things like dri
> - particularly if you are seeing issues in the kernel).

I made it work by doing:

cd /boot/kernel
mv drm.ko drm_hold.ko

I don't know why this was needed, but my thinking was that
if the server was stuck in the kernel, it probably was going in
via some kernel module and that looked a likely candidate
amongst those loaded.. :-)