Still getting hangs with Xorg 7.5

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 31 May 2010, Warren Block wrote:

> On Mon, 31 May 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>
>> on 29/05/2010 20:56 David Johnson said the following:
>>> So far things seem to be working. I added the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU variable and
>>> updated the dependent ports. As a side effect, all those ports are now 
>>> marked
>>> as '>' in portversion. I'm hoping that won't cause any problems.
>>> 
>>> The actual culprit seemed to be EXAVSync in xorg.conf. I added that 
>>> over a year ago to get KDE desktop effects working. Now that I took 
>>> it out the hangs stop, but KDE desktop effects are now unavailable.
>> 
>> So, I am confused - you still get the hangs with the new versions of 
>> the ports unless you disable that option?
>
> EXAVSync shouldn't affect compositing, or at least it doesn't seem to for me. 
> And I think KDE desktop effects are based on compositing.  But I don't run 
> KDE...

What I was trying but failed to say was

"Also, EXAVSync should not disable compositing (KDE desktop effects)."

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA