Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:43:46AM -0700, Anthony Lau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a very strange problem with my Keyboard and Mouse. Without
> warning, my computer will fail to recognize any input from either
> keyboard or mouse (ie the computer does not recognize any input
> coming from the keyboard or mouse). It is nearly random when it
> will happen. The only thing that appears to coincide with loss
> of input is the kernel will swap some memory pages. It seems that
> memory paging while moving the mouse is particularly conducive to
> killing my keyboard and mouse.
>
> Another possible coincidence are these kernel.log messages:
>
> Apr 8 22:20:36 nolandia kernel: ide_pmac_dmaproc: chipset supported
> ide_dma_lostirq func only: 13
> Apr 8 22:20:36 nolandia kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> Apr 8 22:20:36 nolandia kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest }
> Apr 8 22:20:36 nolandia kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy
> }
> Apr 8 22:20:36 nolandia kernel: hda: DMA disabled
> Apr 8 22:20:36 nolandia kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> Apr 8 22:20:36 nolandia kernel: ide0: reset: success
>
> In this instance I retained input ability, but lost it in another
> minor swap event 4 hours later. Unfortunately, there are no log
> messages that coincide with losing input ability this time.
>
> My setup is:
>
> OldWorld StarMax4200 (PMac 4400 clone)
> 160MB RAM
> /dev/hda contains / and 256MB of swap
> /dev/hdc contains 600MB of swap
> 2.4.14 with XFS patch
It's very hard to troubleshoot seemingly random occurrences. If you
don't think it's related to anything you're doing at the time, maybe
you could start disabling daemons to see if one of them can be related
to it?
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