Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:13:11 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: stephane@laperouse.internatif.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X freezes my Sony Vaio PCG-F801 Message-ID: <20031213.191311.110244758.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20031212171530.GH1367@fetiche.sources.org> References: <20031207163127.GA791@fetiche.sources.org> <3FD8EEA3.3060508@aracnet.com> <20031212171530.GH1367@fetiche.sources.org>
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@laperouse.internatif.org> writes:
: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:24:35PM -0800,
: henry tieman <henryt_NOSPAM@aracnet.com> wrote
: a message of 38 lines which said:
:
: > I have only seen 2 kinds of errors crash FreeBSD - bad device drivers
: > and bad memory.
:
: Formally speaking, it doesn't crash, it freezes. But you're right, not
: only the Xfree server is down, the machine stops replying to ping
: also, which seems to indicate that the kernel (or the PCI bus) was
: frozen.
I've seen similar things on my VAIO PCG-505TS. I believe that it is
some kind of hang, since if it were an interrupt storm it would still
reply to pings (at least in 5.x that's what I've observed).
Warner
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