On ma, 2003-09-29 at 17:05, Andreas Vinsander wrote:
> I am using PS/2 kbd and mouse, should I still expect USB hub to be the 
> reason?

Some VIA chipsets have problems if both USB hubs are enabled. This is
what happened to my brother -- he had his Windows hanging every now and
then until I told him to disable one of the USB hubs, which took care of
the problem.

Your problem may not be related to USB however, but if you're not using
USB anyways, it's safer to turn them off. It'll release some resources
for other processes.

> On the machine that is working, I have the same GPU, but the integrated 
> ethernet unit is a VIA rhine instead of a realtek.
> Right now I feel like a big questionmark... :-(

If you have APIC/IO-APIC enabled on the kernel, remove it. Either boot
with noapic or remove APIC support entirely from the kernel. APIC causes
some problems with at least on some VIA and SiS chipsets on uniprocessor
systems (and some AMD multiprocessor systems). To determine if it might
be APIC-related problem. Type dmesg on the command promt and see if
there's a "spurious interrupt" message anywhere. It won't appear
allways, but if it does, it's an APIC problem.

Hardware problems are hard to determine if there's no indication on what
might cause the problem. To be on the safer side, you could start off by
installing the latest 2.4 kernel, and hope it's a driver issue.

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