Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:51:05 -0400 | From | Samuel Thibault <> | Subject | Time freezing on Armada E500 Laptop |
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Hi,
This has been happening for months since I bougth my laptop: it sometimes seems to be frozen, and merely pressing a key unfreezes it. Sending chars on serial port does as well, but the USB mouse does not. I had a closer look and realized that the only matter was the IRQ0 not being generated by the pit any more... So that jiffies wouldn't increase, hence any program based on time would indeed freeze while cpu burners would still run for instance. Fancy things being the window manager still working, but freezing on raising a window. The system clock goes round within ~5s. Remote shells still work of course, since network generates IRQs, but sshd is frozen :/.
I tried 2.4 & 2.5, enabling / disabling APM, ACPI, speedstep, without any change. Flashing my bios to the latest version didn't add any option to the setup, it still only has a dozen, the only one related to power management being speedstep, which I tried to enable / disable as well. The Power Management program shipped by compaq for win95 won't run ("you need administrator rights", uh? on w95?)
Just to be sure, Linux wouldn't ever disable IRQ0, would it? Could it on the other hand use other timers such as the rtc for detecting this trouble, and even use them as fallbacks?
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