Machine freeze when X starts

[Janet Sullivan]

Jens Rehsack wrote:

> mail and rebuild all ports, my machine always crashes
> when I start X.
> 
> My problem is, that I cannot determine the reason
> for the crashes, so I cannot think about a workaround.
> Any hints are very welcome :-)

I've had the exact same symptoms as you with a radeon 9200 on a nforce2 
board.  I found that disabling DRI makes everything work happily.  Try 
commenting out the Load "dri" line in your XF86Config.