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Date:      Tue, 6 Apr 2004 06:51:32 +0200
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: misc/65212: running startx hangs the system
Message-ID:  <20040406045132.GA63152@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <200404060110.i361AOiC038363@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200404060110.i361AOiC038363@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:10:24PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR misc/65212; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> Subject: Re: misc/65212: running startx hangs the system
>  On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:04:12AM -0700, Eike Dehling wrote:
>  
>  > After configuring xfree86, i typed 'startx' and that completely hung
>  > my system. I used the 'nv' driver, for my TNT-1 based graphics card,
>  > in case that matters. The xfree86 version installed is 4.3.
>  
>  This problem report should be taken up with the XFree86 developers.
>  
>  Kris

I had a similar problem. But changing the graphics card to an MG200 AGP didn't
change the picture. After I took out SMB and APIC from the kernel config 
I was able to use X again and the hangup disappeared.

I even watched for panics on the serial console but the freeze was perfect.

--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de



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