Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:24:35 -0800 From: henry tieman <henryt_NOSPAM@aracnet.com> To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@laperouse.internatif.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X freezes my Sony Vaio PCG-F801 Message-ID: <3FD8EEA3.3060508@aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20031207163127.GA791@fetiche.sources.org> References: <20031207163127.GA791@fetiche.sources.org>
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I have only seen 2 kinds of errors crash FreeBSD - bad device drivers and bad memory. Have you tried a memory checker like MemTest86 or MemMXTest? The default memory boot memory test is almost completely useless. I don't know much about MemMXTest but I have used MemTest86 several times. MemTest86 takes a long time to run - think hours. I had a machine with bad ram and I could run for about an hour before I saw any memory errors. MemTest86 ran for about 1 1/2 hours and said I had 8 bad bits at about 480meg on a 512meg dimm. Henry Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >On a Sony Vaio PCG-F801, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, which comes >with Xfree 4.3.0. > >When I work in console mode, the machine is OK. I can spend hours >editing texts with Emacs without problems. > >When I use X, edition with Emacs makes the machine freezes after ten >or twenty minutes of use. The cursor no longer moves, Crtl-Alt-F1 and >Ctrl-Alt-Backspace are ignored. I have to reboot the hard way. > >It seems that the problem only occurs with Emacs. If I spend my time >surfing with Mozilla, I do not have the problem, may be because I do >not type. > >I attached the XFree86 log, hoping it is not too large. > > -- Henry Tieman Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.
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