From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267878AbUGaAF3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:05:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267880AbUGaAF3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:05:29 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:40123 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267879AbUGaAFW (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:05:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2 PS2 keyboard gone south From: Lee Revell To: Felipe Alfaro Solana Cc: Shane Shrybman , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1091229695.2410.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> References: <1091196403.2401.10.camel@mars> <20040730152040.GA13030@elte.hu> <1091209106.2356.3.camel@mars> <1091229695.2410.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1091232345.1677.20.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:05:46 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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