Re: HP Laptop freezes while using Xorg sporadically.

On 7/13/25 18:43, Mauricio wrote:
> I have an HP 255-G7 Laptop running FreeBSD 14.3 RELEASE which every now and
> then freezes entirely while using Xorg. When the laptop freezes, the only
> thing that gives me a response is mouse and graphic tablet movement.
> 
> At that point, I can't jump to a virtual console with CTRL+ALT+FUNCTIONKEY.
> I can't even shut the computer down by pressing the shutdown button for
> less than a second as I usually do.


Can you shutdown the computer if you press and hold the power button for 
~10 seconds?


> But trying to do both things makes the disk activity light indicator start
> blinking a lot for a moment.
> 
> The laptop doesn't seem to get back to work even after half an hour of
> waiting or more.
> Something that i have been noticing is that the freeze seems to be
> triggered by an increase of resources use. I noticed that because the
> freezing starts usually after opening a program like a terminal emulator
> while there are already some programs running in other windows. It also
> happened one time while trying to use my laptop while copying 23GBs of data
> in a virtual console.
> 
> I leave some routine files here for you to check up if you feel the need of
> it:
> 
> dmesg output: https://pastebin.com/C27M5K0F
> rc.conf: https://pastebin.com/9wX0sKsa
> loader.conf: https://pastebin.com/wBrdL8NL
> 
> As always, thanks to whoever that takes the time to help me with this.


Can you log in to the computer over the network via SSH when the desktop 
freezes?


David