Davide Cavaleri wrote: > final experiments; > after realizing that unloading the usb-ohci module (non even the > usbcore) system was fine, i compiled the kernel without modules support > and without usb. the machine crashed and actually i was really angry, > becuase i thought i had found the problem; but finally i discovered that > if usb is not loaded the machine crashes, but if i load it and unload it > (going back to the same situation) it doesn't crash. obviously if i > disale usb from bios everything in ok. maybe is something about irq, so > if it is enabled in bios the ira (11 for me) is used. loading and > unloading the module will do something strange to the irq handles. cat > /proc/interrupts gives 0 on usb. > at this point i'm curios to find out why this happens; since i've red of > many people having this problem maybe someone (not you, as you told me) > had a similar situation. > don't know if it's relevant, but only once the keyboard was blocked, i > had to unplag and plug it back (ps/2 keyb) and it was ok, checking the > interrupts they had jumped from 1500 to about 3000 in few seconds. > going to work, nice day
I forget how recent your hardware is, but have you tried booting with: lilo: linux noapic ? Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
