From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 14:25:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6868C16A4DE for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:25:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A9943D46 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:25:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k6TEPPWr097972; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:25:26 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060729092648.025ef148@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:27:17 -0500 To: "Ahmed Parkar" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <511248fb0607282315g118d8aadiba9b0db15db4604d@mail.gmail.co m> References: <511248fb0607282315g118d8aadiba9b0db15db4604d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:25:53 -0000 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... >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.