On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:01:58PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > I did find it very sensitive to BIOS version, PCI cards and also RAM quality. > > > And finally except for very recent Tyan BIOSes you need a PS/2 mouse connected > > > to avoid IDE lockups > > > > You must be kidding ? This may as well have caused a lot of frustration... > > I removed everything from the system, and still ocassionally had it lock > > up for no apparent reason. > > > > Do you have more information about this bug and is there some way I could > > have found out it was ps/2 mouse myself ? > > Theres an errata on early versions of some AMD chipsets. > This should be handled correctly by the current kernels > without the need for the PS/2 mouse workaround. It is still running FC2 with an old 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 kernel, so it is still impacted, correct ? Was there some way to find out what caused it ? I thought it was a hardware problem as it did not trigger a kernel panic. Would one require a kernel developer to find the culprit ? -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]