Bug#404885: xserver-xorg-video-vesa VERY SLOW
Robert de Bath wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Brice Goglin wrote:
>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> A couple months ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding the
>> X server being very slow with the vesa driver. Does this problem still
>> happen today? There has not been many changes upstream in the vesa
>> driver, but the X server core changed at lot. Could you try with
>> xserver-xorg-core 1.3 currently in unstable (and possibly a recent
>> kernel too)?
>
> Well, looks like I was wrong, the current unstable (1:7.2-3) locks up
xserver-xorg does not matter actually, this package is basically empty.
xserver-xorg-core is the important one, and you have 1.3.0.0 from what I
see in the log.
> with 100% cpu. The process can be kill -9'd and the attached log is what
> remains. In addition after resetting the console I can see the messages:
>
> " f000:5054: 01 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE!
Looks like a problem in x86emu. I am not familiar with this at all.
Maybe somebody else will have an idea.
Brice
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