Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:27:17 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Ahmed Parkar" <parkarahmed@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop... Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060729092648.025ef148@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <511248fb0607282315g118d8aadiba9b0db15db4604d@mail.gmail.co m> References: <511248fb0607282315g118d8aadiba9b0db15db4604d@mail.gmail.com>
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Are the crashes always with X running? ATI support is not good for X.
-Derek
At 01:15 AM 7/29/2006, Ahmed Parkar wrote:
>Hello...
>
>I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop...
>Specs...
>Mobile AMD athlon 3000+
>128mb ATI radeon 9700...
>
>I install it and everything seems to get detected and all... but then... it
>suddenly
>crashes... system just shuts down... no error appears on the screen...
>
>Well, this has been consistenly happening generally when I'm installing some
>port... Once it was KDE, other times it was Opera and most recently it was
>VLC... Once it crashed even when I ran the command "find / vimrc". I know
>the
>syntax of the comand may not be correct, it was just traversing through all
>the
>directories and it crashed (I was tryin to find the default vimrc file). All
>this
>when I was running X under window-maker... Also it crashed once when it was
>in GNOME and the computer was idle for like 30mins or so and it crashed
>(Gnome installs during the installation process, not the ports way)
>So, I figure X might be the problem... So the next time I boot, I dont start
>X
>and I make VLC and it crashes around the same place I expect it to...
>
>Is it the laptop? How can I debug something like this.. get the log files or
>somethin
>just before the crash...
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