Re: X fails to start with latest Linus git

[Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:37:02 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sure, the result of the script is at
> > 
> > http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/kwin/cfs-debug-info-2008.01.27-08.13.28
> 
> it seems you've got hpet active by default:
> 
>  /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource:
>  hpet
>  /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource:
>  hpet acpi_pm pit jiffies tsc
> 
> do you get a similar lockup if you use acpi_pm? You can do that either 
> by disabling the HPET options in your .config, or by doing this prior 
> starting up X:
> 
>   echo acpi_pm > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
> 

Since X was being autostarted when the computer booted, I just removed
"hpet=force" from my command line instead.  The result was that the
lockup happened earlier, so that it was before X was being started.  So
I guess X is not the culprit.

-- 
Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>