> I'm running the 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 kernel, > xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 and x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.11 > So, this is quite recent.
> Only killing X itself cures the problem. > Of course, I have reemerged x11-base/xorg-server x11-drivers/ati-drivers > and I have run revdep-rebuild. > > Probably I have to somehow compare every lib on the "faulty" machine > to another once which should have identical packages. Another thing you might try it to have X automatically reconfigure itself. I find that my xorg.conf gets somewhat bloated from my manual edits, lack of bad commenting, and trying lots of options. This resulted in my machine loading a lot of modules, and I wasn't really sure which ones i needed and which ones I enabled for what reasons over the last three years since I compiled this machine. Make a copy of xorg.conf....copy it to somewhere like /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup Then let it autoconfigure: $ X -configure That will make a temporary xorg.conf which you should move to /etc/X11 or ~/ depending on your setup. It could be that one of the modules you're loading into X is the cause. I had done this recently as well trying to solve my X processor problems, and it might be useful. Alternatively, you can just comment out one-by-one any modules or devices you're loading with xorg.conf and see if any of them are responsible. It's more manual work than rebuilding all your libraries, but it beats the hell out of re-emerging your whole system on a guess.... Regards, daid
