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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!news.ossi.com!pagesat.net!maw.montana.com!news From: Gary Aitken <garya@ics.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Difficulties with FreeBSD 2.x Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 00:57:50 -0600 Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3192E8EE.48C7@ics.com> References: <4mmr05$9hl@tribune.usask.ca> <4moesc$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.230.42.91 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4c) To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> > > 4) When I gave BSD about 200M, it did not complain, but > > eventually it locked up, or at least locked the keyboard and mouse up > > when the system went into power saver mode. During the install, after > > some files were copied (I do not know at exactly what point), this > > occurred, and CTRL-ALT-DELETE even could do nothing. This may not be freebsd; I have seen this problem on a system running both freebsd and win95. In my case, it appears to be some combination of hardware; swapping between two systems didn't conclusively isolate the culprit. It was some combination of video cards and monitors, running on a new Micron P-100. Diamond Stealth 64 Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2001 ADI 5AP 17" Mag Innovision DX1795 It hung most frequently with a stealth 64 2001 + Mag DX1795 For the past month it hasn't hung with a plain 64 + Mag DX1795 Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)