From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Bowman Subject: Re: Kernel instability problem Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 01:01:30 -0400 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <200208140101.31130.jasonb42lists@attbi.com> References: <200208130037.51909.jasonb42lists@attbi.com> <20020813081825.A798@tarnation.dyndns.org> Reply-To: jasonb42lists-K2GnTyEPumIAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20020813081825.A798-2LEdZMXKCZJeeLb3ft/vUmD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Aaron Gaudio Cc: acpi List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 13 August 2002 08:18 am, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > If you haven't already, try disabling your sound... gaim will (by defau= lt) > 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= =20 laptops sound does not work unless ACPI is up and running! I can and do p= lay=20 sound through out the day using KDE's artsd daemon. Naturally watching a=20 movie w/o sound is not that appealing... I will however try gaim w/o soun= d=20 just to make sure.=20 > multiplex desktop sounds. Maybe there's a conflict somewhere brought ab= out > 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=20 version number too! =2E............. I can't believe it! The problem was the sound... gaim was set to use esd.= With=20 it set to esd the computer crashes, setting sound output to an option oth= er=20 than esd it does not crash. (I don't hear anything, but at least my compu= ter=20 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 spaket= h=20 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, not= hing > > moves/changes/etc. I can't switch to an virtual desktops either. > > > > Anyone have any clues? I would like to investigate why this happens a= nd > > help to fix it, however I don't know what to try next. Pointers > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Jason B. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job boar= d > > for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! > > http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code1 > > _______________________________________________ > > Acpi-devel mailing list > > Acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31