X freezes my Sony Vaio PCG-F801

[henry tieman]

I have only seen 2 kinds of errors crash FreeBSD - bad device drivers 
and bad memory.

Have you tried a memory checker like MemTest86 or MemMXTest? The default 
memory boot memory test is almost completely useless. I don't know much 
about MemMXTest but I have used MemTest86 several times.  MemTest86 
takes a long time to run - think hours.

I had a machine with bad ram and I could run for about an hour before I 
saw any memory errors. MemTest86 ran for about 1 1/2 hours and said I 
had 8 bad bits at about 480meg on a 512meg dimm.

Henry

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>On a Sony Vaio PCG-F801, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, which comes
>with Xfree 4.3.0.
>
>When I work in console mode, the machine is OK. I can spend hours
>editing texts with Emacs without problems.
>
>When I use X, edition with Emacs makes the machine freezes after ten
>or twenty minutes of use. The cursor no longer moves, Crtl-Alt-F1 and
>Ctrl-Alt-Backspace are ignored. I have to reboot the hard way.
>
>It seems that the problem only occurs with Emacs. If I spend my time
>surfing with Mozilla, I do not have the problem, may be because I do
>not type.
>
>I attached the XFree86 log, hoping it is not too large.
>  
>

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Henry Tieman
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