Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2 PS2 keyboard gone south

From: Lee Revell
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 19:07:08 EST


On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 19:21, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 13:38 -0400, Shane Shrybman wrote:
>
> > > M5 does that differently, yes - so could you try it? If you still get
> > > problems, does this fix it:
> >
> > Ok, M5 locked up the whole machine within a few seconds of starting X.
>
> Me too, with voluntary-preempt=3... It seems I can trigger this randomly
> by heavily moving the mouse around while logging in into my KDE session.
>
> However, with voluntary-preempt=2 I've been unable to lock the machine
> yet.

It looks like this is a mouse problem, I have a PS/2 keyboard and USB
mouse and have not had any problems yet with M5. I also found that with
L2, I could toggle Caps Lock fast enough to get significantly 'ahead' of
it, this no longer happens with M5.

Lee



-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/