misc/65212: running startx hangs the system

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:51:32AM +0200, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> 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.

SMP of course, sorry for the typo.


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