X freezes my Sony Vaio PCG-F801

[josh]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote...
> Formally speaking, it doesn't crash, it freezes. But you're right, not
> only the Xfree server is down, the machine stops replying to ping
> also, which seems to indicate that the kernel (or the PCI bus) was
> frozen.

This also happens to me on my Thinkpad R32 if I reboot from WinXP and go
into FreeBSD and start X, the laptop just freezes, cannot be reached
over the network and I have to remove the battery.  However, if I shut down
the computer from XP, then start FreeBSD, X works just fine for me.

I don't think it's a FreeBSD specific issue, as it did the same thing with
both OpenBSD and Debian Linux installed - I *had* to power off the computer
when going from WinXP into FreeBSD.  I'm not sure if a warm boot of FreeBSD
will cause the same behaviour, so just to be safe I always just power it
off.

On another note, I can't seem to get the laptop to suspend at all.  It does
suspend under X using "apm -z" but then when I turn it back on, the display
gets all funky and the laptop needs to be powered off and the battery removed.
If I do 'acpiconf -s 5' the box just shuts down.  *shrug* so for now
I just close the lid, at least that kind of blanks the display.

josh