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I was thinking ACPI and typing APIC. Thanks for the correction. :-)
Dow
Tejus Parikh wrote:
>I do wonder if we're getting our acronyms confused, because it seems
>like we're talking about two different things. What I was referring to
>was support for APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller),
>which the NVIDIA driver doc says may cause lockups when used with their
>cards. Recent kernels are better, but under heavy bus load,
>such as burning a cd-rom while switching virtual desktops, my system
>still locks up with this options enabled. Therefore, this is partially
>a graphics card problem, and may not be a motherboard problem.
>
>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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