Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2 PS2 keyboard gone south | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | Sun, 01 Aug 2004 03:11:31 +0200 |
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On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 20:32 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 20:24, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 23:57 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:13, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 20:05 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 19:21, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 13:38 -0400, Shane Shrybman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > M5 does that differently, yes - so could you try it? If you still get > > > > > > > > problems, does this fix it: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, M5 locked up the whole machine within a few seconds of starting X. > > > > > > > > > > > > Me too, with voluntary-preempt=3... It seems I can trigger this randomly > > > > > > by heavily moving the mouse around while logging in into my KDE session. > > > > > > > > > > > > However, with voluntary-preempt=2 I've been unable to lock the machine > > > > > > yet. > > > > > > > > > > It looks like this is a mouse problem, I have a PS/2 keyboard and USB > > > > > mouse and have not had any problems yet with M5. I also found that with > > > > > L2, I could toggle Caps Lock fast enough to get significantly 'ahead' of > > > > > it, this no longer happens with M5. > > > > > > > > I have a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse. > > > > > > Weird. This is my setup also, and I have had no problems since > > > installing M5. > > > > > > Try: > > > > > > Option "NoAccel" > > > > > > in section "Device" of your XF86Config. Also try commenting out: > > > > > > Load "dri" > > > > > > in the "Module" section. > > > > > > This will ensure that the X server is not accessing hardware directly. > > > Normally this should not be a problem but a buggy video driver can cause > > > problems. On my machine, having 2D acceleration enabled caused > > > interrupts from other devices to be lost when dragging a window. > > > > > > Also, is the machine pingable after it locks up? > > > > Curiously, the machine is pingable, but I can't ssh/telnet into it: no > > data is received from the locked machine. > > Hmm. Maybe the problem is filesystem or disk related. Is your root > partition on IDE or SCSI? It could be a SCSI problem.
No SCSI. Only 2 IDE drives, 1 ATAPI DVD and 1 ATAPI CD-RW.
> Are you running software or hardware RAID?
No.
> This is the same behavior you get when, for example, a disk dies.
I have 2 identical UDMA 120GB Seagate disks which are 1 month old, so I guess it's not a problem with bad hardware.
It turns out that my lock ups where related to APIC. Disabling APIC seems to get rid of those lock ups.
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