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Re: startx hard locks machine

On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 08:52 PM, mlists wrote:
>     cpu0: AMD Athlon Model 6 (Palomino) ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class)
> 1.54 GHz
> cpu0: 
> FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,
> FXSR,SIMD
>
You're using an Athlon CPU. There's a known problem with the MTRR 
code in XFree86 which cause that kind of hangs.
Try disabling mtrr in your kernel or using 'Option "mtrr" "no"' 
in the device section of XF86Config.