On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:03 AM, <per...@pluto.rain.com> wrote: > "C. P. Ghost" <cpgh...@cordula.ws> wrote: > >> ... when mplayer plays some (rare) video files. >> >> Xorg then stays at 100% CPU, and it is impossible to kill it, >> neither from the inside, nor from the outside (logged in via >> ssh) with SIGKILL. Only a reboot helps here. > > An unkillable process is almost certainly hung in a driver, and in > this case I would strongly suspect it is a video driver. Can you > break to KDB (or get a dump) and get a ps listing and a traceback > of the hung process? That may enable someone familiar with the > particular driver involved to debug it.
Good hint! I'll try to get a dump next time X hangs with that driver. Meanwhile, I'll probably switch my main desktop to xf86-video-ati as Warren suggested. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
