From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 12:46:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 12:46:52 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([212.71.160.16]:54541 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 12:46:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:46:44 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: Diego Calleja Cc: Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux & X11 & IRQ Interrupts Message-ID: <20020506164644.GC12128@louise.pinerecords.com> In-Reply-To: <3CD5D57D.DED89DFC@starband.net> <20020506182824.7e234644.DiegoCG@teleline.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-OS: Linux/sparc 2.2.21-rc3-ext3-0.0.7a SMP (up 14 days, 8:20) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > [Diego Calleja , May-06 2002, Mon, 18:28 +0200] > > but the noise _doesn't_ disappears. I suspect it's just that I've a cheap > power supply, and a Cyrix 6x86MX processor.... No matter how cheap it was, you should definitely return it and request to be given a new one: Never underestimate any symptoms of dying hardware. Last Christmas a big vendor here in .cz sold thousands of faulty cheap power supplies -- majority of those blew up *all* of the connected peripherals in a single 1-second flash (after a couple weeks in regular use). Tomas