Kernel instability problem

Kernel instability problem

[Jason Bowman]

Hello all,

I have an HP zt1190 laptop, reportedly the same as the xt1100 series. I have 
found that whenever I use an ACPI kernel (I have tried 2.4.18 w/ 20020611 
20020726 patches) and run gaim my machine freezes. This also happens with 
xine. Gaim freezes when someone sends me a message, xine at startup. Running 
KDE 3.0.1 the display remains in a frozen state, nothing moves/changes/etc. I 
can't switch to an virtual desktops either.

Anyone have any clues? I would like to investigate why this happens and help 
to fix it, however I don't know what to try next. Pointers appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason B.



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Re: Kernel instability problem

[Aaron Gaudio]

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If you haven't already, try disabling your sound... gaim will (by default)
play a sound when you receive a message, xine probably tries at least 
opening the sound device when it loads, and KDE starts aRts, I believe, which,
like Gnome's Esound, will open the sound device in order to multiplex desktop
sounds. Maybe there's a conflict somewhere brought about by ACPI (did you turn
off "Plug 'n Play OS" in the BIOS?).

And lo, upon Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:37:51AM -0400, Jason Bowman spaketh thusly:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have an HP zt1190 laptop, reportedly the same as the xt1100 series. I have 
> found that whenever I use an ACPI kernel (I have tried 2.4.18 w/ 20020611 
> 20020726 patches) and run gaim my machine freezes. This also happens with 
> xine. Gaim freezes when someone sends me a message, xine at startup. Running 
> KDE 3.0.1 the display remains in a frozen state, nothing moves/changes/etc. I 
> can't switch to an virtual desktops either.
> 
> Anyone have any clues? I would like to investigate why this happens and help 
> to fix it, however I don't know what to try next. Pointers appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason B.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Kernel instability problem

[Jason Bowman]

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 08:18 am, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> If you haven't already, try disabling your sound... gaim will (by default)
> play a sound when you receive a message, xine probably tries at least
> opening the sound device when it loads, and KDE starts aRts, I believe,
> which, like Gnome's Esound, will open the sound device in order to

Actually sounds is a big reason as to why I am using the ACPI patch as my 
laptops sound does not work unless ACPI is up and running! I can and do play 
sound through out the day using KDE's artsd daemon. Naturally watching a 
movie w/o sound is not that appealing... I will however try gaim w/o sound 
just to make sure. 

> multiplex desktop sounds. Maybe there's a conflict somewhere brought about
> by ACPI (did you turn off "Plug 'n Play OS" in the BIOS?).
My bios sucks and does not have this option... in fact HP shipped an bad ACPI 
version number too!
..............

I can't believe it! The problem was the sound... gaim was set to use esd. With 
it set to esd the computer crashes, setting sound output to an option other 
than esd it does not crash. (I don't hear anything, but at least my computer 
didn't crash!)

Thanks a lot for pointing out the obvious,
 - Jason B.

> And lo, upon Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:37:51AM -0400, Jason Bowman spaketh 
thusly:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have an HP zt1190 laptop, reportedly the same as the xt1100 series. I
> > have found that whenever I use an ACPI kernel (I have tried 2.4.18 w/
> > 20020611 20020726 patches) and run gaim my machine freezes. This also
> > happens with xine. Gaim freezes when someone sends me a message, xine at
> > startup. Running KDE 3.0.1 the display remains in a frozen state, nothing
> > moves/changes/etc. I can't switch to an virtual desktops either.
> >
> > Anyone have any clues? I would like to investigate why this happens and
> > help to fix it, however I don't know what to try next. Pointers
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason B.
> >
> >
> >
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