On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:59:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:04:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
