Strange X freezes, system otherwise responsive

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Christopher Nehren wrote:

> > - Have you recently upgraded your kernel across versions of current and
> > forgotten to rebuild affected ports. See src/UPDATING for details.
>
> I'm not running -CURRENT proper, but actually RELENG_5_1 and now
> RELENG_5_2. I've seen the problem in both _5_1 and _5_2. I've looked at
> UPDATING, and can't see anything that appears to be remotely relevant. I
> have ACPI disabled, I don't use netgraph, I don't have SMP, or a
> processor capable of Hyperthreading, and if X depends on the
> API and ABI of struct ifnet, then I'd be very surprised. My upgrade from
> _5_1 to _5_2 is the only cross-release upgrade that I've done
> (everything else was just patches to _5_1), and the problem existed
> before this upgrade.

Are you using libkse by any chance? There have been problems reported with
the official nvidia drivers and kse over the use of the %gs register.

Do you actively use OpenGL? Would you mind trying the nv driver and see if
this problem persists?

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
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