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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Shane Shrybman <shrybman@aei.ca>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2 PS2 keyboard gone south
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:05:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091232345.1677.20.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091229695.2410.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com>

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.

Lee




  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-31  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-30 14:06 [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2 PS2 keyboard gone south Shane Shrybman
2004-07-30 15:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-30 17:38   ` Shane Shrybman
2004-07-30 23:21     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-07-31  0:05       ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-07-31  1:13         ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-07-31  3:57           ` Lee Revell
2004-08-01  0:24             ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-08-01  0:32               ` Lee Revell
2004-08-01  1:11                 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-08-01 10:49                   ` Ingo Molnar
2004-07-31  3:54         ` Shane Shrybman
     [not found]           ` <1091246621.1677.71.camel@mindpipe>
     [not found]             ` <1091267282.1768.8.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com>
     [not found]               ` <1091296615.1677.283.camel@mindpipe>
     [not found]                 ` <1091320571.2445.6.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com>
2004-08-01  0:46                   ` Lee Revell
2004-08-01  1:14                     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-07-30 18:03 ` Lee Revell
2004-07-30 21:31   ` Shane Shrybman
2004-07-30 21:46     ` Lee Revell

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