From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 21:32:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01DC37B404 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:32:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.aok.net (mail.troutmedia.com [209.184.133.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 036F743FBD for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:32:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sloftis@aok.net) Received: (qmail 21215 invoked by alias); 13 Aug 2003 04:33:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aok.net) (64.123.148.177) by 0 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2003 04:33:44 -0000 Message-ID: <3F39BF70.2030204@aok.net> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:32:48 -0500 From: Steve Loftis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: System hangs after a while X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 04:32:55 -0000 I noticed lately that my system just freezes and becomes unresponsive after several hours. It doesn't matter whether I'm in X or if i'm simply in the console, but after a while the screen goes blank, and my input devices such as keyboard and mouse simply don't work. After a restart, the keyboard and mouse still don't work and I'm stuck at the bootloader. Therefore, I turn the system off, unplug both mouse and keyboard and turn it back on. It works just fine... until the initial problem starts over again. What could be the source of this? I am running FreeBSD 5.1 and I'm running an edited kernel simply to add sound support. Any suggestions?