Firefox locks up X server (nv)

[Christian Weisgerber]

Christian Weisgerber <naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:

> A few days ago I freshly installed 8.0-CURRENT on a new amd64 box
> and built X11 from ports.  Running firefox (either locally or from
> a remote machine on the local display) causes the X server to lock
> up within a few seconds.
> 
> This is with xf86-video-nv on a cheap GeForce 6200 LE card, no
> xorg.conf, the latest xorg and drivers as of today.

I have created an xorg.conf file (X -configure) and disabled
acceleration for the card.  This prevents the server from locking
up, but is obviously only an emergency workaround.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de