From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 14:39:26 2003 Return-Path: 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 8C4C816A4CF for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from citrine.spiritone.com (citrine.spiritone.com [216.99.193.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFB543E46 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from henryt_NOSPAM@aracnet.com) Received: from aracnet.com (216-99-194-252.dial.spiritone.com [216.99.194.252]) (authenticated bits=0)hBBMVTXw013965; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:31:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3FD8EEA3.3060508@aracnet.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:24:35 -0800 From: henry tieman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephane Bortzmeyer References: <20031207163127.GA791@fetiche.sources.org> In-Reply-To: <20031207163127.GA791@fetiche.sources.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X freezes my Sony Vaio PCG-F801 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:39:26 -0000 I have only seen 2 kinds of errors crash FreeBSD - bad device drivers and bad memory. Have you tried a memory checker like MemTest86 or MemMXTest? The default memory boot memory test is almost completely useless. I don't know much about MemMXTest but I have used MemTest86 several times. MemTest86 takes a long time to run - think hours. I had a machine with bad ram and I could run for about an hour before I saw any memory errors. MemTest86 ran for about 1 1/2 hours and said I had 8 bad bits at about 480meg on a 512meg dimm. Henry Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >On a Sony Vaio PCG-F801, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, which comes >with Xfree 4.3.0. > >When I work in console mode, the machine is OK. I can spend hours >editing texts with Emacs without problems. > >When I use X, edition with Emacs makes the machine freezes after ten >or twenty minutes of use. The cursor no longer moves, Crtl-Alt-F1 and >Ctrl-Alt-Backspace are ignored. I have to reboot the hard way. > >It seems that the problem only occurs with Emacs. If I spend my time >surfing with Mozilla, I do not have the problem, may be because I do >not type. > >I attached the XFree86 log, hoping it is not too large. > > -- Henry Tieman Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.