On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:05:02AM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:59:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:04:53AM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > > > After much further trying (documented to some extent in this thread) I'm > > > back to suspecting the software again. I've summarized the state of > > > affairs as it's known as of now and filed it as a bug against xorg: > > > > > > bug #379480: Mouse and partial keyboard freeze on AMD64 > > > > > > Somehow the pattern of failure seems wrong for a hardware problem -- > > > not really random enough, it seems to affect things that (I think) > > > are different pieces of hardware (USB mouse and pre-PS2 keyboard), and > > > it affects things differently that (I think) are the same piece of > > > hardware (i.e. different keyboard keys behave differently after the > > > "crash"). > > > > > > Advice on tracking it down, and experiences others have on ASUS If you have another machine then you could push the kernel messages out ttyS0 and have the second machine hooked into ttyS0 with minitab and log all the messages, that way you would capture all the error information ! > > > A8N-VM-UAYGZ motherboards are still very welcome, of course, but perhaps > > > I should move this discussion to the xorg mainling list. > > > > Are you using ps2 or usb mouse and keyboard? > > A usb nouse > > > > > Is the bios up to date? > > > > What is a pre-ps2 keyboard? ps2 keyboards have a small round 6 pin > > connector just like ps2 mice. Old AT keyboards had a 5 pin din > > connector that was quite a bit larger. > > A five-pin din connector., with an adapter to plug into the ps2 port on > the comnputer. > > > Does anyone still use those? > > Yes. Best keyboard I've ever owned. Except for my Alphasmart which I > bought about a year ago. > > > > > Is usb legacy support enabled in the bios? (if you don't use a usb > > keyboard, try turning it off). > > > > Which window manager are you running? For a while I saw a lot of > > lockups when I tried to run firefox under kde. Use anything other than > > kde, and crashes/lockups went away. That was a few months ago though. > > Seems better now. > > icewm, fvwm. Both had the same problems. Never used kde. The problem > does seem to be less severe these days than a few months ago, though. > > > > > -- > > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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