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Subject: Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2
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Hi Martin,

> I agree: I experienced X11 freezes on 5.2 with both a nvidia card as
> well as a card using the i740 chipset. The nv freezed the computer as
> soon as I started X, the i740 happend to freeze it when I killed the X
> server

I also have nvidia - Geforce 256. And for me it also freezed 
on startx.

> Also, I saw two similar reports on the -current list.
>
> However, I managed to work around these freezes by removing the two
> SMP-related lines from my kernel configuration:
>
> options         SMP  # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> device          apic # I/O APIC
>
>
> Additionally, I am sure ACPI does not have anything to do with this --
> at least on this box.
>

Well, it's getting more and more interesting... 
I'm curious what does it have to do with SMP ?

Are you sure it has nothing to do with ACPI ?
Other posters suggests disabling ACPI. Did you try
and it didn't help ?

Regards,
Jarek