Re: apparent crashes persist.
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:28:12AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
> 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 !
I did mention in the bug report that if an xterm has keyboard focus at
the time of the "crash", it retains it and I can go on executing shell
commands. This is how I got the dmesg output in the bug report -- after
the "crash". Mouse frozen, ctl-alt-function keys dead, but ordinary
ASCII still alive.
But this suggestion is good for the times that an xterm isn't active...
-- hendrik
>
> > > > 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
> >
> >
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