Re: Mouse interrupts: the death knell of a VP6

Oleg Drokin
2002-04-10T15:23:46Z

Hello!

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:02:05AM -0500, Brent Cook wrote:

> I have an ABIT VP6 motherboard, using the VIA Apollo chipset and 2 700Mhz
> PIII's, but please don't hold that against me. The system is running
> 2.4.19-pre6. I believe that I either have a system that has trouble
> handling a sudden bursts of interrupts, or have found a fault in mouse
> handling.

Have you tried to change MPS mode to 1.1 from 1.4 (I see addres message timeouts
in your log)?

> I have already tried removing memory, adding memory, changing processors,
> video cards. The only thing that has remained constant is the VP6
> motherboard and the hard drive.

My VP6 died on me recently with some funny symptoms:
it hangs in X when I start netscape and move mouse, or if I do
bk clone on kernel tree, it dies with
kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux-2.4.18/include/asm/smplock.h:62!
BUG in various places pretty soon.
(this BUG is only appears if 2 CPUs are present in motherboard).
So if your troubles began only recently, you might want to try another
motherboard just to be sure.

Bye,
Oleg