Troy Schultz [Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:03:42AM -0400]: > [acpi20020225+gpm] > > Here is a summary of what is happening; > - Start the system normally to init level 5 (X is running), it does not > matter if I log in and start gnome or KDE, or just stay at X login > screen > - change to console mode using <CTRL><ALT><F1> > - if you change back to X using <CTRL><ALT><F7> then X hangs part way > through redrawing screen. There is no mouse or keybaord. > - X is using over 99% of CPU and the only way I have been able to clean > things up is to ssh into the notebook and restart the system. > - I can SysRq-B and reboot, but the ext3 filesystem doesn't like this. sysrq+s,+u,+b helps a lot... sounds like acpi or another kernel problem, gpm should not be able to stop X redrawing. > Oddly enough if I start another X session on display 1 <CTRL><ALT><F8> > and us it and never switch to the session on display 0, everything is > fine. I can switch between console and display 1 with no problems. I had this problem someday with my nvidia tnt card, too. It stopped in newer X versions. > I have only found this problem with gpm version 1.20.0, this does not > happen with gpm 1.19.6. I have also verfied that this same problem > happens if I configure gpm for a standard ps/2 device and not the synps2 > device I normally use. exactly the same setup & gpm 1.19.6 works ? > I have also found the following; > - start with identical kernel 2.4.17 with no ACPI compiled in and > everything is fine. > - start with kernel 2.4.9-21 and acpi 20010615 compiled in and > everything is fine. doesn't that sound like a kernel problem ? > - have tried using X with direct ps/2, not using gpm, and everything is > fine. oops. that does not sound like a kernel problem. > - have tried gpm 1.20.0 with and without Peter's patches and the results > are the same. > - have tried gpm 1.20.0 using ps/2 instead of synps2 protocol and > results are the same. did you try gpm -D for debugging ? > - have tried starting to init level 3 and logging in and then using > startx, but this gives the same problem. there is no real difference, if you start X or init does. > I am still doing some tests to determine why this is happening, and will > probably try a newer ACPI patch to see what happens. any new information ? greetings, Nico -- Nico Schottelius Please send your messages pgp-signed or pgp-encrypted. If you don't know what pgp is visit www.gnupg.org. (public pgp key: ftp.schottelius.org/pub/familiy/nico/pgp-key)
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