Complete System Freeze when log out of X session

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 9 21:00:46 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 17:20 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, vangogh wrote:
> 
> > My laptop has xorg 7.3 on Freebsd 7.
> > My xorg.conf file has:
> > Section "Device"
> >   Identifier "card0"
> >   Driver "vesa"
> >   VendorName "S3 Inc"
> >   BoardName "VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]"
> >   BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Problem is when I log out of gnome my system freezes completely and 
> > control+alt+backspace does not work. The keyboard becomes totally 
> > unresponsive and i must unplug the system to turn it off. I have searched 
> > this problem and seen that posts appear in the archives back in 2006 about 
> > this issue. However, I cannot find any solution. Can someone please point me 
> > in the right direction for a solution to this please?
> 
> As I've posted twice in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:
> 
> Try using the xf86-video-savage driver instead of vesa, and disable DRI 
> in xorg.conf.

I don't have any of this hardware, but if someone can get me a trace of
the panic, preferably with git drm modules, I can take a look...

robert.

> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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