Luis, 2009/7/28 Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@xxxxxxxxx>: > Chris > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 14:34, Chris Clayton<chris2553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2009/7/28 Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> Hi Chris >> >>> Can you do a very dumb test for me? >>> >>> Boot your laptop by adding 'irqpoll' to the kernel command line >>> options and see if the problem still occours. >>> >> >> Not so dumb a request, actually. Running -rc4 with the irqpoll >> command line option, the laptop has just survived 30 minutes without a >> freeze. It can't survive more than 5 minutes without that option. >> >> Chris > > Well, if the laptop hangs on working without any problems, this may > proove to be some strange kind of hardware incompatibility. > > The irqpoll option solves some of the interrupt related problems, by > polling them instead of 'grabbing' them (at least that is what I think > it is happening, correct me if I'm wrong:)) > I've no idea whether you are right or wrong :-) If it is a hardware quirk, the odd thing is that the card has worked perfectly (modulo development cycle bugs that I've unearthed and reported) for a long time now, including the codemonkey driver before rt2x00 hit mainline. Anyway, thanks for your help. Chris > > Luis Correia > rt2x00 project admin > -- No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn - Doctor Samuel Johnson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
