Toshiba P25-S507 laptop and freezes with 2.6.0-test9

Toshiba P25-S507 laptop and freezes with 2.6.0-test9

[brian]

My Toshiba P25-S507 P4 2.8 running vanilla 2.6.0-test9 occasionally
freezes.  The freezes occur during events such as closing or opening
the lid or removing/inserting the power adapter and sometimes during
halt.

The freezes are reasonably rare. Occuring perhaps once every 3
days or so.

On the other hand, I have not been able to force one.  Purposely playing
with the power or the lid switch I have not been able to cause the
freeze.  However, everytime it happens it has been associated with one
of the actions listed above.

I believe the freezes do happen with earlier 2.6.0-test kernels,
but they seemed more rare then.  

I don't recall a freeze ever occuring with 2.4.20-gentoo-r5.

-- 
Brian Litzinger

Re: Toshiba P25-S507 laptop and freezes with 2.6.0-test9

[Chris Wright]

* brian@worldcontrol.com (brian@worldcontrol.com) wrote:
> 
> My Toshiba P25-S507 P4 2.8 running vanilla 2.6.0-test9 occasionally
> freezes.  The freezes occur during events such as closing or opening
> the lid or removing/inserting the power adapter and sometimes during
> halt.

These are ACPI events (at least lid and power adaptor).  So, are you
compiling in ACPI support?  If so does it still happen with acpi=off
kernel command line option?  Do you still have keyboard when it freezes?
If so, alt-sysrq-p or alt-sysrq-t show anything useful?  And, finally,
you aren't using an nVidia binary only module for that GeForce are you?

thanks,
-chris
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Re: Toshiba P25-S507 laptop and freezes with 2.6.0-test9

[brian]

> * brian@worldcontrol.com (brian@worldcontrol.com) wrote:
> > My Toshiba P25-S507 P4 2.8 running vanilla 2.6.0-test9 occasionally
> > freezes.  The freezes occur during events such as closing or opening
> > the lid or removing/inserting the power adapter and sometimes during
> > halt.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:28:49AM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> These are ACPI events (at least lid and power adaptor).  So, are you
> compiling in ACPI support?  If so does it still happen with acpi=off
> kernel command line option?  Do you still have keyboard when it freezes?
> If so, alt-sysrq-p or alt-sysrq-t show anything useful?  And, finally,
> you aren't using an nVidia binary only module for that GeForce are you?

Yes I use APCI support.

Ah, I have been trying to use 'noacpi' so I guess I have failed to
turn it off.  I'll give 'acpi=off' a try.

The keyboard is as dead as the rest of the system.

I am running the nVidia binary module.  

I'll run 'acpi=off' for a week or two and then try the nv driver.

Thanks for the help,

-- 
Brian Litzinger