From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 23:33:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5162C1065693 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:33:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2318FC08 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk8 with SMTP id 8so3516541qyk.13 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:33:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fwdtjLri9gfDF3UbOA0ZrNSMtIkpYVaE8TOYEf0zvLU=; b=iUyWag8gLki4zaKZT+82yiFLVMTmKV9n/QBNpUGyb3IXkwPeCw1nhbArJkf7o67oos sBn+y61hf4MauCVFjvy0y8DtpsnhvMKvoPbyEp1HXAV45+NX1Hg9qehzoOORwj5umr+4 MzbJQo9BxrPT5joe3l6OM43ZBdbyDUDo9s0E8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=biaZ+Z+xd+EGEGOlqSLbPoIjPd3/oHcI8iDogPWevSV7zpDRs3fy4aOeJ/Qi9yb8Zp +24rrHraFcIEhyuzf8rn7XAaO1SISXy03K1IEUXCHz9TjYsTlKkSEau5qwCG2QvA2+Bc W94mBReOSa8gUgn71/iHoylB0Pup56pT5TQ/0= Received: by 10.229.213.199 with SMTP id gx7mr4190920qcb.141.1282606392071; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local ([204.108.237.194]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r36sm7706925qcs.15.2010.08.23.16.33.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C730535.8080707@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:33:09 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rem P Roberti References: <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net> <4C72B37D.2020504@comcast.net> <4C72B51C.8020901@gmail.com> <4C72B6EE.6050205@gmail.com> <4C72B8A3.2@comcast.net> <4C72E620.8070007@comcast.net> <4C72ED4D.9060909@comcast.net> <4C72F6DC.1040009@gmail.com> <4C72FDC0.5080308@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4C72FDC0.5080308@comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Xorg Redux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:33:13 -0000 On 8/23/10 7:01 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: >> Ok, one quick question. When your screen goes blank, can you >> [ctrl][alt][fN] to a different TTY, where N is anything between 2-7? >> I'm curious about the machine's state when you start X. >> > > No, when the screen goes blank the whole computer freezes. No mouse, no > keyboard. And I also noticed that the wireless indicator freezes in the > on position. Everything stops dead its tracks. > In your xorg.conf, switch 'Driver "intel"' to 'Driver "vesa"', and see if it hangs with that. In addition, it might be helpful to build debugging options into your GENERIC kernel. If you're willing to go down this path, I'll help you get set up, but the gory details are here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html First, let's try the "vesa" thing. -- Glen Barber