misc/65212: running startx hangs the system

Christoph P. Kukulies kuku at kukulies.org
Mon Apr 5 21:52:07 PDT 2004


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.

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



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