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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:45:30 +0430
From:      Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@laperouse.internatif.org>
To:        henry tieman <henryt@aracnet.com>
Cc:        Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@laperouse.internatif.org>
Subject:   Re: X freezes my Sony Vaio PCG-F801
Message-ID:  <20031212171530.GH1367@fetiche.sources.org>
In-Reply-To: <3FD8EEA3.3060508@aracnet.com>
References:  <20031207163127.GA791@fetiche.sources.org> <3FD8EEA3.3060508@aracnet.com>

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:24:35PM -0800,
 henry tieman <henryt_NOSPAM@aracnet.com> wrote 
 a message of 38 lines which said:

> I have only seen 2 kinds of errors crash FreeBSD - bad device drivers 
> and bad memory.

Formally speaking, it doesn't crash, it freezes. But you're right, not
only the Xfree server is down, the machine stops replying to ping
also, which seems to indicate that the kernel (or the PCI bus) was
frozen.
 
> Have you tried a memory checker like MemTest86 or MemMXTest? 

No defect detected yet, still running.



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