On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:58:56AM -0800, Brian de Alwis wrote:
> This freeze on updates may be specific to the X driver for the
> particular chipset, as I'm not seeing any such behaviour with my
> regular advances of my system clock.

Ok, just in case my information: I can reproduce this on this card:

(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation GeForce FX Go5200 rev 161
..
(II) LoadModule: "nv"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.o
(II) Module nv: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
        compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 1.0.1
        Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
        ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.7


Martin