Bug#508859: xserver-xorg: xorg hangs randomly (+reproduceable) and uses then 98% CPU

[Peter Weil <peter.weil.2k7@googlemail.com>]

5 minutes ago it crashed again while viewing a pdf file in KPDF.

So xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.10.0-2 didn't fix the problem.

Best regards


Peter

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Peter Weil
<peter.weil.2k7@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>>>> Support for RS690 boards is very recent, you probably want to upgrade
>>>> your X packages to experimental where the radeon driver is much more
>>>> recent.
>>>>
>>> Now I've installed
>>>
>>> ii  xserver-xorg                         1:7.4~5
>>> the X.Org X server
>>> ii  xserver-xorg-core                 2:1.5.99.902-1
>>>
>>> on lenny and it works quite well.
>>
>> Great, marking as fixed in experimental (I guess you have
>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.10.0-2).
>
> yes:
>
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon            1:6.10.0-2
>
>>>  The only problem is that the
>>> keyboard layout is en and not de.
>>> Part of my xorg.conf:
>>>
>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>         Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>>>         Driver          "kbd"
>>>         Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
>>>         Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
>>>         Option          "XkbLayout"     "de"
>>>         Option          "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> So de should work, but does not.
>>>
>>
>> Your keyboard is probably driven by input-hotplug, so this section of
>> xorg.conf is ignored. See http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/16734.html to
>> configure things (or revert to xorg.conf instead of input-hotplug, at
>> the bottom of the webpage).
>
> I'll look into that.
>
>> Brice
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>