[ale] Keyboard lockups

[Dow Hurst]

I am completely lost in acronym hell and you are right....

I was thinking ACPI and typing APIC.  Thanks for the correction. :-)
Dow


Tejus Parikh wrote:

>I do wonder if we're getting our acronyms confused, because it seems
>like we're talking about two different things.  What I was referring to
>was support for APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller),
>which the NVIDIA driver doc says may cause lockups when used with their
>cards.  Recent kernels are better, but under heavy bus load, 
>such as burning a cd-rom while switching virtual desktops, my system
>still locks up with this options enabled.  Therefore, this is partially
>a graphics card problem, and may not be a motherboard problem.  
>
>You seem to be referring ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
>Interface).  No doubt this is buggy and may be causing his continued
>problems, but I just wanted to clear up what we are all talking about. 
>No doubt, the keyboard lockups are confusing enough before the people
>trying to help get lost in "Acronym Hell" ;)
>
>
>On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 23:47, Dow Hurst wrote:
>  
>
>>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:
>>
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>>>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:
>>>> 
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>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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