On 2020-09-12 01:24, Kevin Oberman wrote:

I'm happy to see that I am not crazy!

This is mostly anecdotal. The freezes have occurred regularly, without
question, but the details are not statistically verified. This is based on my perceptions. The only things I am really sure of is that the system is unusable on head and runs well on 12.1-Release. This system has a rather
new Intel GPU, the Comet Lake, and is only supported on head with
drm-devel-kmod, so moving back to 12.1 is not an option. I am curious what
processor is on the T490. I am using the default keyboard layout.
On terminal sessions (vt), when the keyboard is idle. I have had the system run for a couple of hours or longer with no problems. To get bigger ports to build, I usually switch to another vty and keep that one fairly busy. It
will freeze when no vty is active, but as long as any is active every
minute or less. I have had freezes in under a minute, but rarely.

Moving on to other possibly related (or not) issues:
When running on X (MATE), it may freeze whether the keyboard is active or not. OTOH, it seems to freeze less often. I've had X lock up mid-word but
also run for 15 or more minutes. It eventually does freeze, but I don't
think I've ever gone more than 10 minutes on an idle keyboard without a
freeze without X running.

Switching to a vty and keeping it fairly active still seems to keep the
system alive while X is being used. X is performing very poorly. If the
processors are busy, say by building a port, screen updates are very slow, often pausing for several seconds. Expose events seem to often redraw all
windows which is very annoying. Several times I thought the system was
frozen only to suddenly have the screen update and everything be normal,
again.

I also have this issue on a Carbon X1 7th Gen (type 20QDCTO1WW) on recent -CURRENT snapshots. I'll try 12-STABLE for now since the system is totally unreliable on -CURRENT.
I used the default English kb layout but that didn't resolve anything.

The longest I've been able to just let the live cd run (running top) when on AC before my system completely freezes is roughly about 7 hours. Then again, I've also seen even the live cd from the memstick.img freeze after a couple of seconds after login (did a tail -f on /var/log/messages and it almost immediately froze right after that).
When it freezes the fan ramps up at a fairly high rpm.
Unless I forcibly power down the high rpm just continues.
Power mode for AC is set to max performance.
Adaptive thermal management scheme for AC also set to max performance.

I've tried booting both using UEFI and also legacy BIOS but in both cases I've experienced the same behaviour.

Any specific settings in BIOS to perhaps avoid?

I bought this ThinkPad based on the info listed on https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Thinkpad_X1_Carbon

I just made the following BIOS changes:

config -> power -> adaptive thermal management > scheme for AC : balanced (was : maximize performance)
config -> power -> sleep state : Linux (was: windows 10)
config -> intel AMT > intel AMT control : disabled (was : enabled)
security -> security chip > security chip : Off (was : On) <-- security chip type : TPM 2.0

Hasn't improved anything i'm afraid.

User Duffyx on the forums mentioned
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248659

So consider this an official 'me too'

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