Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:56:19 +0200 From: Martin <nakal@web.de> To: James Earl <jdearl@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 problem when on battery and AGP/ACPI Message-ID: <1063205778.593.30.camel@klotz.local> In-Reply-To: <20030909175341.GA785@h24-64-142-219.lb.shawcable.net> References: <20030909175341.GA785@h24-64-142-219.lb.shawcable.net>
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Am Di, 2003-09-09 um 19.53 schrieb James Earl: > When the system freezes up, the mouse does move, but jumps slowly from > place to place, and the HDD light flashes occasionally. > > If I remove 'device agp' in the kernel, everything works fine (with > ACPI enabled), or if I disable ACPI everything works fine (with AGP > enabled). My guess would be an ACPI problem... and everyones probably > saying just disable ACPI! :) > > Has anyone had a similar problem? Yes. Similar. I have a Thinkpad R40 running current, too. I don't know if removing ACPI and/or agp solves the problem. I will check soon. I also don't know if the problem occures only on battery. (Btw: in the i386/conf/NOTES file you will see the comment that one should not load agp as module when using radeondrm: # mga requires AGP in the kernel, and it is recommended # for AGP r128 and radeon cards. ) After running XFree (Radeon 7500) for a longer time, I cannot restart it anymore, because it _seems_ to freeze up the system. I have tried to check what happens and managed to login with ssh. After running top, I could see XFree eating up the CPU >100%. Shutdown from ssh does not work in this situation somehow (it does not unmount properly and the XFree display stays frozen, sshd gets killed). I have this strange HDD activity, too, as you described above. --- I guess this all is related to the Radeon 7500 problem. And I have a question about it here: Is it normal behavior that when starting a second instance of XFree (on :1 for example) the Radeon-GLX-extension fails to load? You can reproduce it very easily. Martin PS.: problems with Radeon 7500 have been already described on the freebsd-current mailing list many times.
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