On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:28:12AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:05:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
