misc/65212: running startx hangs the system

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Apr 9 18:29:42 PDT 2004


On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:56:17AM +0200, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> 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.

Were you using any modules?  They need to be recompiled for SMP.

Kris
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