hi, also posted this to Freebsd Mobile list, pls reply also
to me as i can't subscribe to the list currently to get your replies off
of the list, thanx.
jus finished putting the finishing touches on a
new FreeBSD 4.7 install onto a TECRA 720CDT with XFree86
4.2.1
strange thing started happenning that is not hardware
related
after starting X, whether plain vanilla X or KDE after a
few min or a few
seconds the laptop locks up solid, i mean just
freezes, nothing in the logs. NOTHING in the logs, just the normal startup
messages.
hard reboot is the only cure, no key sequence to kill the
X server (as in
ctl-alt-bkspc), or to ctl-alt-Fx to get back to a
terminal or even to ping
or telnet into laptop from across the LAN, i
mean the sucker is so frozen
that the only indication it's still on is
teh frozen image on the screen.
thought at first it was hardware,
so i ran it in windoz for long periods and
it does fine, it runs fine
under FBSD 4.7 as long as i don't invoke X win
this happens as
mentioned only after invoking X and X loads
doesn't matter if i'm using
the laptop's internal joystick style pointer or
an external mouse
attached to its PS/2 port.
any one have similar exp or
suggestions?
--P
PS: wondering if the moused daemon might
hav been the problem so i
disabled moused in rc.conf and also killed
off moused, (moused is used in FreeBSD to give a user mouse ability in
console mode, SHOULD NOT be needed for X).
now when i startx
whether plain vanilla or kde there is no mouse or
rather there is a
pointer in the middle of the screen that can't be moved
whereas when
moused was active i could move the pointer but then it'd
lock
up
solid as stated above..
pls note that i use an
external mouse most always rather than rely on laptop's internal joystick
style mouse. |
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