Bug#286213: reopen 286213

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Jeroen N. Witmond wrote:
>> Could you send the output of
>>     /usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-core/script 3>&1
>> We need to know what hardware and software config you are running.
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> Attached.
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Thank you.

>> Is the X process consuming lots of CPU when the freeze occur?
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> I don't know. I have no access to the system when X freezes.
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Since the mouse pointer still moves, the machines is far from dead.
Logging by ssh from another machine should work, as Peter said.

>> If DRI is enabled, you could eventually try to disable it and tell us
>> whether it changes anything.
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> What is DRI, and how do I ...
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DRI is Direct Rendering Infrastructure, the thing that makes hardware
acceleration directly usable by applications to draw 2d/3d stuff
quickly. But since it talks to the hardware, bad thing happen in case of
a bug.

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] (rev a1)
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This board is DRI capable.

> 	Load	"dri"
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You're enabling DRI in xorg.conf.

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> 	Driver		"nv"
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But, this free driver does not support DRI. Only the ugly binary nvidia
driver does.

> (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
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So DRI is actually not enabled, no need to try to disable it. You may
now forget about DRI :)

Brice