From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 18:43:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6A91065671 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:43:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A563B8FC2C for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:43:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JgOyM-0000IE-61 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:43:10 +0000 Received: from 92.50.96.215 ([92.50.96.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:43:10 +0000 Received: from saper by 92.50.96.215 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:43:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Marcin Cieslak Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:43:00 +0200 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <47F130B4.6010200@system.pl> References: <33469ba20803310035w2f03f9bh448a37199e9aa28b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.50.96.215 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080325 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 In-Reply-To: <33469ba20803310035w2f03f9bh448a37199e9aa28b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: FreeBSD freezing at random X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:43:13 -0000 Mikkel Skærris wrote: > My system is a IBM T40 laptop, and i has been running FreeBSD for more > than two years without ANY problems at all. But a couple of days ago > my 7.0 intallation began freezing at random, without any log messages > or anything. Same thing happens on a fresh installation of 6.3. Often > the screen flickers, and blacks out, as if the screen conection was > loose or something, but it isnt. And I cant seem to pinpoint the > problem, to any certain area. Though the windows installtion (dual > boot) works completely fine. Did you upgrade anything? The base system, X server and/or drivers? I have upgraded my VAIO SZ5MN recently from 7.0-PRERELEASE to 7.0-STABLE around 24th of March and it started to show strange symptoms during work in X11 (usually with the seamonkey browser). The "human interface" got frozen and the only thing that worked was the power-off button (then the machine started to power down orderly, showing strange things on display sometimes). I was thinking this was some ACPI issue but then I figured out that the system was ok when using Intel video card (instead of NVidia - this system has two cards switchable). I have upgraded xorg-server, nvidia and intel drivers to the latest and now it works fine. --Marcin