Problems with startx on 5.2-RELEASE

[Martin Brecher]

Hi, -

there have been reports about X11 freezing the entire system on 5.2.

I managed to get rid of these freezes by removing SMP and apic support 
from my kernel. (Single CPU machine, of course.)

Although I suggested this procedure to some people on freebsd-questions, 
nobody seemed to take notice of it; everyone solely blamed ACPI.

So I guess that the following confirmation may be of some interest for 
those that don't have time to follow freebsd-questions.

Greetings and thanks for your great work,
- Martin

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Problems with startx on 5.2-RELEASE
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:09:56 +0100
From: Jaroslaw Nozderko <jarek at eko.net.pl>
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org

>
> Have you tried removing
>
> options         SMP  # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> device          apic # I/O APIC
>
> from your kernel config and recompiled?
>

The same problems with X on 5.2-RELEASE as in RC2 (X
freezes on startup or shutdown).

hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" helps, but causes strange warnings
in dmesg (and shutdown doesn't switch power off...).
Then I've commented out SMP and apic from kernel, as
Martin suggested above and problem disappeared, acpi works
correctly.

Regards,
Jarek


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