On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:37:05AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: ... > > Can you verify that the machine is actually dead? Do you have another > > machine that you can hook up either to a serial console, or ssh into the > > dead box? Weird X symptoms could lead to an unresponsive keyboard, with > > the machine running just fine underneath X. > > Just to re-enforce this, I have a colleague who is seeing this on his > Radeon-based Lenovo T43 (m300). The display blanks and cannot be > resurrected, even CTRL-ALT-BS does not help, but the system is alive. > > Oddly, I also have a Lenovo T43 based system and it has never shown this > problem. It might be something in your xorg setup that is triggering it.
FWIW, I have also seen seemingly identical symptoms a couple times on a Debian server I set up a couple weeks ago at work, also using a Radeon card (Radeon 9250) and xorg. The console goes away (freezes completely), Control-Alt-Backspace doesn't work to restore it, but the system is still accessible via ssh. This leads me to suspect the reported problem may not be a FreeBSD issue per se but an xorg Radeon driver issue. Reducing the maximum sync setting may have helped, but I don't consider it confirmed yet. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"