> Disabling the accelerated functions also "fixes" the machine, for some
> definitions of "fix" :).
That sounds like an X bug then
> My question is really why this problem would lock up the kernel...
> I can't really tell whether the problem is in the implementation of the
> XFree86 functions or the kernel functions it is calling, but the fact
> that the entire kernel locks up suggests that both are to blame. Can
> you suggest where I should start reading code (if not the file atleast
> the directory :).
X maps the video hardware and drives it directly. In that sense X is the
device driver for video not the kernel.
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