[ale] Keyboard lockups

[Tejus Parikh]

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:
> 
> > 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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