Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2 PS2 keyboard gone south

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 21:13, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 20:05 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I have a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse.

Weird.  This is my setup also, and I have had no problems since
installing M5.

Try:

        Option          "NoAccel"

in section "Device" of your XF86Config.  Also try commenting out:

	Load		"dri"

in the "Module" section.

This will ensure that the X server is not accessing hardware directly. 
Normally this should not be a problem but a buggy video driver can cause
problems.  On my machine, having 2D acceleration enabled caused
interrupts from other devices to be lost when dragging a window.

Also, is the machine pingable after it locks up?

Lee