Comment 18 for bug 259808

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praveer01 (praveer12) wrote : Re: X Lockup in Intrepid (infinite loop)

Even I have the same problem at my end, the installation here is Fedora 9 sulphur,

$ /sbin/lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 290 (rev a1)

driver installed for nvidia is nvidia-kmod-173.14.12-5.lvn9.src.rpm from livna repository,

Uniquely it happens only when I login into KDE4 and not in gnome, and shows all same symptoms as Rocco mentioned,

the lockup happens randomly ranging from 1/2 a minute to 5 minutes, and the X locks up for a while after which the lock is released and then lock can occur randomly again.

I noticed the same error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
[mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping.
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Strangely, X doesnt lock up randomly when I use gnome rather than kde4, I tried disabling composite in xorg.conf, but X in kde4 still locks up randomly.