startx hangs locally but not over ssh

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:40:46 -0800
"Jack L." <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Erich Dollansky
> <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.

did you try the kill as root?
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> vesa works fine but wanted it to work with the ati driver which has
> acceleration

Ok, did you upgrade FreeBSD?

The recompile at least hal and the video driver.

Erich