2003-11-12 18:26:35

by Brian Litzinger

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Subject: Toshiba P25-S507 laptop and freezes with 2.6.0-test9


My Toshiba P25-S507 P4 2.8 running vanilla 2.6.0-test9 occasionally
freezes. The freezes occur during events such as closing or opening
the lid or removing/inserting the power adapter and sometimes during
halt.

The freezes are reasonably rare. Occuring perhaps once every 3
days or so.

On the other hand, I have not been able to force one. Purposely playing
with the power or the lid switch I have not been able to cause the
freeze. However, everytime it happens it has been associated with one
of the actions listed above.

I believe the freezes do happen with earlier 2.6.0-test kernels,
but they seemed more rare then.

I don't recall a freeze ever occuring with 2.4.20-gentoo-r5.

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Brian Litzinger


2003-11-12 19:28:54

by Chris Wright

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Subject: Re: Toshiba P25-S507 laptop and freezes with 2.6.0-test9

* [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> My Toshiba P25-S507 P4 2.8 running vanilla 2.6.0-test9 occasionally
> freezes. The freezes occur during events such as closing or opening
> the lid or removing/inserting the power adapter and sometimes during
> halt.

These are ACPI events (at least lid and power adaptor). So, are you
compiling in ACPI support? If so does it still happen with acpi=off
kernel command line option? Do you still have keyboard when it freezes?
If so, alt-sysrq-p or alt-sysrq-t show anything useful? And, finally,
you aren't using an nVidia binary only module for that GeForce are you?

thanks,
-chris
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2003-11-13 02:15:28

by Brian Litzinger

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Subject: Re: Toshiba P25-S507 laptop and freezes with 2.6.0-test9

> * [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote:
> > My Toshiba P25-S507 P4 2.8 running vanilla 2.6.0-test9 occasionally
> > freezes. The freezes occur during events such as closing or opening
> > the lid or removing/inserting the power adapter and sometimes during
> > halt.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:28:49AM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> These are ACPI events (at least lid and power adaptor). So, are you
> compiling in ACPI support? If so does it still happen with acpi=off
> kernel command line option? Do you still have keyboard when it freezes?
> If so, alt-sysrq-p or alt-sysrq-t show anything useful? And, finally,
> you aren't using an nVidia binary only module for that GeForce are you?

Yes I use APCI support.

Ah, I have been trying to use 'noacpi' so I guess I have failed to
turn it off. I'll give 'acpi=off' a try.

The keyboard is as dead as the rest of the system.

I am running the nVidia binary module.

I'll run 'acpi=off' for a week or two and then try the nv driver.

Thanks for the help,

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Brian Litzinger