On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 09:03:40AM -0600, jordon wrote: > I have UEFI disabled in BIOS - I think initially I had a problem > getting it to boot with it on so I turned it off and that made it > work. > > I have not touched xorg.conf and I didn???t notice anything suspicious > in the log. It always drops me back to terminal when i close X and > gives me about 30 seconds or so before it locks.
If I remember correctly, UEFI works fine as long as CSM is enabled but I am not positive at the moment. I would have to look at my settings. I would suggest you backup and reinstall with UEFI which provides efifb(4) and then you could use wsfb(4) as well (with the xorg.conf I posted previously). Using wsfb(4) is much faster than vesa(4) as well. If you do not want to do that or if you want to do more tests first, you could also try starting up top(1) immediately after exiting X and see if some process is using a lot of CPU or something. Also, have you tried pinging your system when it appears to be frozen. If that works, can you try accessing it via ssh? If those do not work, it seems likely to be a true hard freeze. Others with more suggestions will probably have to comment here since I am not sure what other ways would work best to try to narrow down what might be causing a hard freeze. If you are willing to do the reinstall, I think you will end up with a better experience overall and hopefully your freeze will disappear. I am running most of my desktop and laptop systems with UEFI now and have had no issues. I still use traditional booting for servers at this point since there is no advantage as of yet to UEFI booting for servers. Bryan
