startx hangs locally but not over ssh

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:17:42 -0800
"Jack L." <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Erich Dollansky
> <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:41:54 -0800
> > "Jack L." <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone have any ideas on why startx would cause Xorg to
> >> consume 100% cpu and stuck in RUN state. kill -9 does nothing to
> >> it and forced to reboot to kill it.
> >>
> >> If I ssh localhost and startx, it works normally.
> >>
> >> I'm running FreeBSD 10.0 and it's a Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 with
> >> USE_XORG_NEW undefined.
> >>
> > try to add WITH_GALLIUM and compile X again.
> >
> > X will work via ssh as it does not have anything to display on that
> > machine then. It is the graphic card driver which is your problem.
> >
> > Erich
> 
> grep -ir "WITH_GALLIUM" /usr/ports/x11*
> 
> didn't show anything, what does that do? The ati driver worked fine in
> FreeBSD 9.2. This card doesn't support KMS as it's an older laptop
> video card.

if KMS is not supported, then take the VESA driver and see what happens.

Erich