I assume you're using the machine at the time so that rules out
one of the OpenGL screensavers coming on and crashing.
Try disabling APM and/or ACPI in your motherboard bios. It
sounds like a power management issue to me.
Mark.
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Peter Myllykoski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm stuck with my XFree86 4.4.0. Everything seems to work for a while
> but after a couple of minutes the screen hangs. I have looked around for
> an answer but with no result. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 on i386. The
> XFree86 was installed from source and the WM is Fluxbox. I start up X
> using xdm and with fluxbox set as the session. When the screen freezes
> after some time the mouse cursor is still able to move around. When
> trying to kill the XServer using Ctrl + Alt + Backspace nothing happens.
> If I cut the power to be able to reboot, the XF86Config file content is
> erased leaving a blank file. At the point when the screen hangs I can
> still use SSH to connect to the computer.
>
> Sincerely Peter
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