Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:20:52 -0400 From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: "Richard C." <freebsd@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TOSHIBA, FreeBSD + X Locks up.... :( Message-ID: <20010411012052.A16561@argos.org> In-Reply-To: <004201c0c243$82153840$0100a8c0@bsdaemon.org>; from freebsd@telus.net on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:54:36PM -0700 References: <004201c0c243$82153840$0100a8c0@bsdaemon.org>
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--d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 0, "Richard C." <freebsd@telus.net> wrote: > Hi there, >=20 > I've got a Toshiba Satelite Pro 4300 Laptop. Celeron 700, 64M RAM > running FreeBSD 4.3-RC and XFree86 3.3.6. >=20 > X runs very nice! But after so long, I could be switching windows and the > whole system locks up completely! I can't even CNTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE out of= X > or CNTRL-ALT-F2 for console. Pressing the power button does nothing, unle= ss > of course I hold it down to do a hard reset. That of course isn't good...= :( I have a 4360 that runs quite nicely, assuming a few things: 1) APM + X (on the Savage IX chipset that's in there) is a no-no. APM see= ms to work OK when in text mode (I can suspend & resume - everything works OK except the PCMCIA cards on resume - not sure if that's been fixed since I last did an update.) Due to some glitches in the Savage handling, APM events tend to blow up X. 2) Switching back and forth between X and text mode also causes X to blow up quite frequently. What is interesting is that telling Gnome to exit (graceful shutdown of X) almost always blows it up, while doing a ctrl-alt-bksp to violently kill X usually returns the display to normal. Haven't look at why this happens, but it does... 3) (The big one) Is it really locked up, or (like mine when it blows up) is it just stuck with no keyboard or display? I hooked a serial terminal up to the back of it and started a login session over that - when X blew up, the serial terminal was still running fine - could do a proper shutdown and power-off. (Shutdown & reboot still leaves the display unusable, but the system does boot up and start running - you just can't see anything.) Out of curiosity, I downloaded the 10-minute eval version of the Xig server and tried it out. With that one, I was able to switch back forth between X and text, restart X, etc. without any glitches. (Didn't try playing with APM, though.) But for the $149(?) it costs, I'll deal with the glitches for now. My wife already thinks I spent enough on my new toy. mike (BTW: I haven't done much updating on this machine since December. Some of this stuff might have been fixed since then - I just don't have a driving reason to spend a lot of time working on it right now.) --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjrT6bQACgkQJol4I8h9Gd8dUwCaA0lnmt4jJfVShCClb74hBlVY h7UAn1esO0HKdK2U8B/Ak3NlSZq4l+Xa =+bbf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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