From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 07:56:30 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 E6B2D16A4BF for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp01.web.de [217.72.192.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F3E43FEC for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nakal@web.de) Received: from [217.81.255.75] (helo=[192.168.0.1]) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (WEB.DE 4.99 #448) id 19x6OQ-0001Sg-00; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:56:27 +0200 From: Martin To: James Earl In-Reply-To: <20030909175341.GA785@h24-64-142-219.lb.shawcable.net> References: <20030909175341.GA785@h24-64-142-219.lb.shawcable.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1063205778.593.30.camel@klotz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:56:19 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: nakal@web.de cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 problem when on battery and AGP/ACPI 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: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:56:31 -0000 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.