Exiting Xorg panics Core Duo laptop

[Ben Kaduk]

On 5/9/06, Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
> I have a Core Duo system (2 2GHz CPUs), that continually locks up (I
> believe it panics) when exiting xorg with both CPU's enabled.  If I have:
>
> hint.apic.0.disabled="1"
>
> in device.hints, I only use one CPU, however it exits from xorg just
> fine.  When the system locks, I still have some keyboard control (num
> lock lights, etc), but I can't seem to do anything else.  I can't see
> the screen, it goes black during that time.  All my system
> configs/dmesg/etc are here:
>
> Booted with apic not disabled:
> http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/200605090613/
>
> Booted with apic disabled:
> http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/200605091117/
>
> How can I debug (or help debug) this?
>
> Eric
>
>
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Eric,

Does your laptop by any chance have a serial or firewire port with
which to set up a remote console?

-Ben Kaduk