>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... :)