[ale] Keyboard lockups

[Dow Hurst]

Disregard this last post!  I looked back and saw you have a Dell 
Dimension 4600.  Those are always cutting edge on the hardware and tuned 
by Dell for Windows and not Linux at all.  So, you can look into finding 
a DSDT that isn't broken for your Dell but that is about it until more 
APIC coding is done.  We had a system, not a Dell, but an XFX 
motherboard that required the same kernel option of turning APIC off 
completely.  No apm or apic support enabled at all would allow the 
machine to boot, use the ethernet card, cdrom, and graphics card without 
crashing or having a black non responsive screen.  That was all under 
SUSE 8.2.  Currently SUSE 9.1 runs the hardware with APIC support like a 
charm.  Everything works no problems.
Dow


Dow Hurst wrote:

> Well, that is new enough that you must have really new hardware.  
> Sometimes playing with BIOS settings will help but I don't know what 
> to suggest.  What is your motherboard model?  Maybe someone could 
> suggest an answer.  I was thinking that you might have a 2.4 kernel 
> and would benefit from the newer APIC code.
> Dow
>
>
> David Corbin wrote:
>
>> 2.6.7, I think.
>>
>> On Saturday 02 October 2004 08:46, Dow Hurst wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> What is your kernel version?  Updating to the latest kernel could 
>>> really
>>> help with your APIC problem.
>>> Dow
>>>
>>> David Corbin wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Well, disabling the APIC option has made my system much happier.  Now,
>>>> twice in a day, I've had this problem where the keyboard simply 
>>>> stopped
>>>> functioning.  Both times, I was in X, and both times, I was just 
>>>> about to
>>>> send an IM in Gaim (so it might be a GAIM-related problem).
>>>>
>>>> Rebooting corrected it.  Next time, I'll take smaller steps -- kill 
>>>> GAIM,
>>>> if I can, restart X,  Try typing in a virtual console.  But, in the 
>>>> mean
>>>> time, any other suggestions?
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