From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 10 9:49:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD0637B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:49:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com (smtp016.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD92643E75 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:49:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pg@eth1.com) Received: from pool-141-154-38-62.bos.east.verizon.net (HELO kjw98se) (kjerstes@141.154.38.62 with login) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Nov 2002 17:49:15 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3DCEC7D3.000003.31275@kjw98se.ne.mediaone.net> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:55:47 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) Content-Type: Text/Plain X-Mailer: IncrediMail 2001 (1750710) From: "Peter Gatsoulis" X-FID: FLAVOR00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000 X-FVER: 2.0 X-CNT: ; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 To: Subject: XF86 4.2.1 freezes after new 4.7 install Reply-To: "Peter Gatsoulis" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi jus finished putting the finishing touches on a new 4.7 install onto a TECRA 720CDT strange thing started happenning that is not hardware related after starting X, whether plain vanilla X or KDE after a few min or a few seconds the laptop locks up solid, i mean just freezes, nothing in the logs. hard reboot is the only cure, no key sequence to kill the X server (as in ctl-alt-bkspc), or to ctl-alt-Fx to get back to a terminal or even to ping or telnet into laptop from across the LAN, i mean the sucker is so frozen that the only indication it's still on is teh frozen image on the screen. thought at first it was hardware, so i ran it in windoz for long periods and it does fine, it runs fine under FBSD 4.7 as long as i don't invoke X win this happens as mentioned only after invoking X and X loads doesn't matter if i'm using the laptop's internal joystick style pointer or an external mouse attached to its PS/2 port. any one have similar exp or suggestions? --P PS: wondering if the moused daemon might hav been the problem so i diabled moused in rc.conf and also killed off moused now when i startx whether plain vanilla or kde there is no mouse or rather there is a pointer in the middle of the screen that can't be moved whereas when moused was active i could move the pointer but then it'd lock up solid as stated above.. pls note that i use an external mouse most always rather than rely on laptop's internal joystick style mouse. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message