> From: Eric Anholt [mailto:eta@lclark.edu]
>
> It was a bug in the cirrus driver (I'm guessing that's what you're
> using).  You can fix it by removing #define DEBUG from
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/cirrus/alp_xaam.c
>
> This is fixed in XFree86 4.3.0.

Excellent guess; you are correct!  I am using the cirrus
driver.  It's too big of a tangent to my development to
recompile or upgrade to the head at the moment, but at
least I know why it's happening and can fix it with my
next update.
For now, I'll go with the /dev/null idea!

Thanks.

> Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org
>

--JC