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You seem to be referring ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface). No doubt this is buggy and may be causing his continued
problems, but I just wanted to clear up what we are all talking about.
No doubt, the keyboard lockups are confusing enough before the people
trying to help get lost in "Acronym Hell" ;)
On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 23:47, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Disregard this last post! I looked back and saw you have a Dell
> Dimension 4600. Those are always cutting edge on the hardware and tuned
> by Dell for Windows and not Linux at all. So, you can look into finding
> a DSDT that isn't broken for your Dell but that is about it until more
> APIC coding is done. We had a system, not a Dell, but an XFX
> motherboard that required the same kernel option of turning APIC off
> completely. No apm or apic support enabled at all would allow the
> machine to boot, use the ethernet card, cdrom, and graphics card without
> crashing or having a black non responsive screen. That was all under
> SUSE 8.2. Currently SUSE 9.1 runs the hardware with APIC support like a
> charm. Everything works no problems.
> Dow
>
>
> Dow Hurst wrote:
>
> > Well, that is new enough that you must have really new hardware.
> > Sometimes playing with BIOS settings will help but I don't know what
> > to suggest. What is your motherboard model? Maybe someone could
> > suggest an answer. I was thinking that you might have a 2.4 kernel
> > and would benefit from the newer APIC code.
> > Dow
> >
> >
> > David Corbin wrote:
> >
> >> 2.6.7, I think.
> >>
> >> On Saturday 02 October 2004 08:46, Dow Hurst wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> What is your kernel version? Updating to the latest kernel could
> >>> really
> >>> help with your APIC problem.
> >>> Dow
> >>>
> >>> David Corbin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Well, disabling the APIC option has made my system much happier. Now,
> >>>> twice in a day, I've had this problem where the keyboard simply
> >>>> stopped
> >>>> functioning. Both times, I was in X, and both times, I was just
> >>>> about to
> >>>> send an IM in Gaim (so it might be a GAIM-related problem).
> >>>>
> >>>> Rebooting corrected it. Next time, I'll take smaller steps -- kill
> >>>> GAIM,
> >>>> if I can, restart X, Try typing in a virtual console. But, in the
> >>>> mean
> >>>> time, any other suggestions?
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