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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox lock me out of my X session and X get 100% cpu usage
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwix () iway ! na>
Date:       2008-05-29 20:55:17
Message-ID: 200805292155.18125.uwix () iway ! na
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On Thursday 29 May 2008, Claudinei Matos wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm having a weird problem here. I do have an amd64 install of
> gentoo with KDE 4.
> Well my problem is that sometimes (once or more per day)  when
> using Firefox I do
>  click in some link or try to scroll down/up the scrollbar my
> system freezes.
> When this happen I have to remotely login via ssh and do  'kill -9
> X' which in this case
> is consuming  around 100% of cpu usage.
>
> I've already updated both kde and firefox and even tried to
> disable/enable render acceleration on xorg
> but nothing seems to help.
>
> I'm using  Xinerama (nvidia + sis video boards) but this is a old
> install (around 1 year) and
> my problem just started  after I've migrated to kde4.

AFAIK, KDE4 < 4.1 has severe problems with xinerama. Can't confirm 
this myself because I don't use xinerama but have read about it on 
KDE mailing lists.

Uwe

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