System freezes unexpectly

[Davide Italiano]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Garrett Cooper <gcooper at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Davide Italiano
> <davide.italiano at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/29/10 10:18 AM, Davide Italiano wrote:
>>>> Hi.
>>>> I'm running 8.1 on my Sony Vaio laptop, with dwm as window manager on
>>>> lastest Xorg on ports.
>>>> When I'm trying to run firefox3, the system "freezes" unexpectly. I
>>>> know that "freezes" is a bit generic but I can't find a more specific
>>>> term to describe the situation. Dmesg doesn't give useful infos.
>>>>
>>>> I installed firefox using pkg_add -r , the only add-on/plugin
>>>> installed is Xmarks.
>>>>
>>>> I'm ready to eventually debug, any suggestion is apprectiated.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Davide,
>>>
>>> Can you run firefox from xterm and check for any errors that might be
>>> generated?
>
> What video driver are you using, can you stimulate this issue with
> other applications in X11, etc?
> -Garrett
>

I tried to stimulate issue w/ other applications and other window
managers, but I didn't obtain anythin' ( I also tried w/ epiphany,
that uses the same rendering engine of firefox) . Firefox "freezes"
the system (again, I don't know if it's the right term). The driver
I'm using is radeon.

Regards.

Davide Italiano