[gentoo-dev] RE : [gentoo-dev] System hangup w/ X taking 100% cpu

[gentoo-dev] RE : [gentoo-dev] System hangup w/ X taking 100% cpu

[SCHAFFHAUSER Jean-Matthieu]

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	>I logged in via ssh, and top showed X was taking 100% cpu. I tried killall X,
	>no effect. I tried kill -9 <X pid>, the remote login hung up and i couldn't
	>ssh to it again. I had to do a hard reboot.
	>Both rc6 lockups were when running kmail, both rc5 lockups while running
	>ksirc.
	
	I had the exact same problem with kmail (as well as ssh). I tried several version of X and 4.0.2 seems to work fine. Again, this is maybe a very specific solution since my gentoo is running on a notebook. (IBM600E with Neomagic).

	Jean-Matthieu

	PS: Sorry for this lame HTML post... :)


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Re: [gentoo-dev] RE : [gentoo-dev] System hangupw/ X taking 100% cpu

[Dan Armak]

On Thursday 13 December 2001 19:28, you wrote:
> 	I had the exact same problem with kmail (as well as ssh). I tried several
> version of X and 4.0.2 seems to work fine. Again, this is maybe a very
> specific solution since my gentoo is running on a notebook. (IBM600E with
> Neomagic).
Hm. I've Xfree 4.1.0 here, latest portage revision (r5 I think). But again, 
it worked before for a long time. I had Xfree-4.1 and kmail-2.2.2 and all the 
same drivers except for the kernel (was 2.4.14, is 2.4.16) for a long time 
and everything worked. I've also lived with this system for 2 days and it 
never hung up until now.

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] RE?: [gentoo-dev] System hangup w/ X taking 100% cpu

[Nathaniel Grady]

If you have a thinkpad 600E (possibly other computers with Neomagic video) add:
        Option "XaaNoScanlineImageWriteRect"
        Option "XaaNoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill"
to your Section "Screen". Fixes kde crashing problems on my computer. I assume this is not a gentoo-specific issue. Hope this helps ya Jean-Matthieu (and anyone else who has a 600e on this list)

--Nathaniel Grady

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:28:06PM +0100, SCHAFFHAUSER Jean-Matthieu wrote:
>  
> 
> 	>I logged in via ssh, and top showed X was taking 100% cpu. I tried killall X,
> 	>no effect. I tried kill -9 <X pid>, the remote login hung up and i couldn't
> 	>ssh to it again. I had to do a hard reboot.
> 	>Both rc6 lockups were when running kmail, both rc5 lockups while running
> 	>ksirc.
> 	
> 	I had the exact same problem with kmail (as well as ssh). I tried several version of X and 4.0.2 seems to work fine. Again, this is maybe a very specific solution since my gentoo is running on a notebook. (IBM600E with Neomagic).
> 
> 	Jean-Matthieu
> 
> 	PS: Sorry for this lame HTML post... :)
>