<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/30 Mark Greenwood <<a href="mailto:fatgerman@ntlworld.com">fatgerman@ntlworld.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Monday 30 June 2008 20:27:51 Gary Dawes wrote:<br>
> 2008/6/30 Joe Ripley <<a href="mailto:vitaminjoe@gmail.com">vitaminjoe@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Gary Dawes <<a href="mailto:gary.dawes@gmail.com">gary.dawes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I've popped the use events true in the Xorg,conf, and checked that there<br>
> > is<br>
> > > plenty of disk space, even checked that the network is up - I'm stumped.<br>
> ><br>
> > It sounds like X might be stuck in a loop of some kind. strace might<br>
> > be able to give you some info on what it's doing... try something<br>
> > like this:<br>
> ><br>
> > # ps a |grep X<br>
> > (get X's pid)<br>
> ><br>
> > # strace -p 4066<br>
> > (or whatever X's pid is)<br>
> ><br>
> > The output may give you some insight as to what's going on.<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > Joe Ripley<br>
> ><br>
</div>> > <<a href="mailto:vitaminjoe@gmail.com">vitaminjoe@gmail.com</a>><br>
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> Thanks for that. I think (everything crossed) thta I have now managed to<br>
> resolve it. "useevents" "true" and a couple of other driver config tricks<br>
> did not fix the problem, but since I started using Myth I have had a custom<br>
> PAL modline, which is now crippling Xorg for some reason. Strange as I have<br>
> not changed anything for months, software or hardware wise, and have used<br>
> that modeline for years.<br>
><br>
> Just happy that it's fixed.<br>
><br></div></blockquote><div>Bugger - It's not fixed. Joe's strace has revealed that X seems to be stuck in a loop processing gettimeofday. machine time is correct and NTP is functioning as normal.<br><br></div>
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