laptop Dell M4400 with -CURRENT?

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Wed May 13 11:26:10 UTC 2009


El día Wednesday, May 13, 2009 a las 10:20:36AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:

> Hello,
> 
> I have to admit that this message 'all is fine' was to fast; the Xorg
> came only up *once* and let the KDE3.5.10 fully appear; I was even able
> to switch the font size from 8 to 12, because with this high resolution
> it was nearly unreadable.
> 
> after stopping X with Ctrl-Alt-BS I was never ever able to bring X + KDE
> up; while KDE is initialising at some point the X goes into 100% of CPU
> usage; it is not a CPU-loop itself inside the X server, but a loop of
> SIG 14 as I can proof with truss from another session:
> 
> SIGNAL 14 (SIGALRM)
> sigreturn(0xbfbfe500,0xe,0x0,0xbfbfe500,0x0,0x8127070) = 678420552 (0x286fe048)
> SIGNAL 14 (SIGALRM)
> sigreturn(0xbfbfe500,0xe,0x0,0xbfbfe500,0x0,0x8127070) = 678420552 (0x286fe048)
> SIGNAL 14 (SIGALRM)
> sigreturn(0xbfbfe500,0xe,0x0,0xbfbfe500,0x0,0x8127070) = 678420552 (0x286fe048)
> SIGNAL 14 (SIGALRM)
> ...
> 
> when I only start via ~/.xinitrc a 'xterm' and 'twm' there is no
> problem, but as soon I'm launching 'startkde' inside such a session the
> above loop comes up and only power cycle bring the system back to life.
> 
> What can I do?

I have set now in xorg.conf 

	Option     "NoAccel" "true"

which let KDE come up, but ofc it is terrible slow; just to let you
know; Thanks in any case for your work.

	matthias

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