From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 13 11:24:38 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 9875437B401 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.aok.net (mail.troutmedia.com [209.184.133.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0E3043F75 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sloftis@aok.net) Received: (qmail 14699 invoked by alias); 13 Aug 2003 18:25:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aok.net) (209.184.133.219) by 0 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2003 18:25:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3F3A8261.1080905@aok.net> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:24:33 -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: All around system hang 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 18:24:38 -0000 (I mentioned this earlier on the "newbies" list, but I was informed it was more of a "questions" question) I have FreeBSD 5.1 installed on my box at home. Install worked smoothly the second time, we just kind of messed up because it had been awhile since my buddy installed his. Well anywho, it works... sorta. The thing is this: after a number of hours of non-use, the machine just quits responding. A movement of the mouse, a few key presses on the keyboard don't help. I restart the machine and it during the initial boot when I can access the BIOS, the input devices work fine. Once it reaches the bootloader, the keyboard doesn't respond. So I turn it off, unplug both keyboard and mouse (both of which are ps/2, btw) and then turn the machine back on. It works after that. However, after several hours of non-use, it does the same thing over again. I would consider myself an intermediate when using Linux (RedHat 5.x-7.x) and I've printed off the a good amount of the manual from the FreeBSD website. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you. --Steve-0