Folks:
I've been experiencing the following problem when using recent versions
of the X server while also connecting to a network via a PC Card NIC.
The X server itself runs correctly, but after shutdown it seems to hang
the console driver until I eject the PC Card (PCMCIA).
A typical sequence of events is:
1. I insert the card and connect to the network
2. I start up the X server using startx
3. I use the X server for a while.
4. I shut down the X server
5. Shutdown appears to be normal. However, either immediately or
soon after shutdown, the kernel's keyboard or console driver hangs
until I eject the PC Card. Sometimes I get a few seconds of normal
behavior before the problem occurs; for example, sometimes I
succeed in logging out before things act up.
6. I eject the PC Card. Often I get the message:
eth0: interrupts dropped!
7. Some of my keystrokes then appear on the screen (and get acted on);
things go normally from then on. I think that it's the console
driver rather than the keyboard driver, because if I type "date"
while things appear to be hung, it prints an older time after I
eject the PC Card.
Some details:
Hardware: Compaq Presario 1920 (300 Mhz Mobile Pentium II)
O/S: Linux 2.4.16 (also 2.4.18)
PC Card: Kingston or Netgear NE2000-based 10/100 ethernet card.
This happens both with pppoe and dhcp.
X server version:
current (30 May) cvs; it also has occurred as far back as
26 April cvs, but was not present in the 12 January cvs
snapshot. I have placed a sample XFree86.log file at the
following URI:
http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xf86log.txt
Any ideas?
--Paul Vojta, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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