Re: startx hard locks machine

[mlists <mlists@konjz.org>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 12:57:28PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> 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.

Thank you!
No more hangs.