From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 06:26:05 2004 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 7A19416A4E4 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:26:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.export-japan.com (export-japan.com [211.19.46.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E913E43D39 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:26:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsdmob@t4ac.com) Received: (qmail 1476 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2004 23:24:46 +0900 Received: from yahoobb219042248065.bbtec.net (HELO akatombo.com) (219.42.248.65) by export-japan.com with SMTP; 30 Mar 2004 23:24:46 +0900 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost.my.domain) by akatombo.com with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1B8K41-000FRj-Ls for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:18:01 +0900 Received: (from www@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2UEI171059378 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:18:01 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from freebsdmob@t4ac.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: www set sender to freebsdmob@t4ac.com using -f Received: from 192.168.1.54 ([192.168.1.54]) by t4ac.com (IMP) with HTTP for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:18:01 +0900 Message-ID: <1080656281.406981992c8ab@t4ac.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:18:01 +0900 From: Bob McDonald To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.3 / FreeBSD-4.9 X-Originating-IP: 192.168.1.54 Subject: Toshiba Satellite Freezing Problems 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: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:26:05 -0000 Hello, I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me at least narrow down what the problems I am having on my laptop might be. Ideally someone will say, "Oh I had that, this is what you did wrong dummy," but google hasn't been much help to me so far. The background: Japanese Toshiba Dynabook Satellite 1800 SA10AP/4 - http://dynabook.com/pc/catalog/limited/rps180ap/index_j.htm This has been updated from 128Mb RAM to 384Mb RAM but the problem happened before the upgrade too 4.9-Release - custom kernel with acpi (power management) and pcm0 included XWindow manager - I have tried Gnome and KDE and it has happened on both and on my current one - Ion The Problem: I think there are actually two problems, but both of them involve the machine freezing leaving me unable to do anything. Just to answer a question that I've gotten before I tried ctrl-alt-backspace to no avail. 1) When I play video (both MPlayer and xine) the display will sometimes get a seemingly random bright colored pattern on it and the machine will stop responding. This seems to be more likely to happen as the machine has been used for a longer amount of time, and particularly if a video has been played before. I'm not sure if it is related but with the same things increasing likelihood the player will sometimes put up a bright green screen with letter shadows on it and play only the sound. 2) If I leave the machine on at night it will sometimes freeze up on a screen saver or blank screen, and the machine will not respond. both of these problems require me to switch the power off an on again. Anyone have any ideas? thanks, Bob P.S. I noticed just now that my gkrellm CPU temperature monitor (no idea if it is accurate or not) says that my CPU temperature is at 70c. I have never noticed it being that high before, but that could be the cause. I have thought before that it may be acpi not functioning quite right causing the problem as my battery life went way down when I installed FreeBSD too. If anyone has any ideas about straightening that out it may solve the problem indirectly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.