X freezes my Sony Vaio PCG-F801

d.wylie at hccnet.nl d.wylie at hccnet.nl
Wed Dec 10 23:46:12 PST 2003


My Compaq Presario 1600 also freezes with the trident driver and XFree 4.3.0. and any 5.x. Was ok under 4.8, don't remember the XFree version.
Try "vesa" instead of "trident" and I think you'll be fine. I don't know the extent of speed disadvantages of vesa versus trident.
There've several disccusions concerning freezing trident systems, but I've never heard of a real solution yet. I'm just using the vesa driver for now, cvsup-ing often hoping for some-one to fix it.
Also check the XFree site for know bugs. There are a few concerning trident. oh, running at 24bit color depth works fine here.
I (and others, obviously) would much appreciate a _real_ solution. 

Dylan

> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:01:27PM +0430,
>  Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at laperouse.internatif.org> wrote
>  a message of 608 lines which said:
> 
> > On a Sony Vaio PCG-F801, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, which comes
> > with Xfree 4.3.0.
> ...
> > 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.
> 
> What I tried:
> 
> > (**) Option "Protocol" "SysMouse"
> > (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "SysMouse"
> > (**) Option "CorePointer"
> > (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
> > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> 
> 1) Changing the protocol to PS/2 and stopping moused. X works but
> freezes
> the same.
> 
> 2) Testing with a color depth of 8 only. No change.
> 
> 3) I tried to test with the "svga" driver instead of "trident" but I d
> not find it in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. Is it normal?
> 
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