Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:16:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:16:50 -0400 Received: from dsl-65-185-37-21.telocity.com ([65.185.37.21]:17325 "EHLO onevista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:16:45 -0400 Reply-To: johna@onevista.com Message-Id: <200204101716.NAA30717@onevista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: John Adams Organization: One Vista Associates To: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Drokin , Brent Cook Subject: Re: Mouse interrupts: the death knell of a VP6 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:16:39 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020206191108.A11277@suse.de> <20020410083504.Y60587-100000@ozma.union.utexas.edu> <20020410192339.A22777@namesys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 10 April 2002 11:23 am, Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:02:05AM -0500, Brent Cook wrote: > > I have an ABIT VP6 motherboard, using the VIA Apollo chipset and 2 > > 700Mhz PIII's, but please don't hold that against me. The system is > > running 2.4.19-pre6. I believe that I either have a system that has > > trouble handling a sudden bursts of interrupts, or have found a fault > > in mouse handling. > > Have you tried to change MPS mode to 1.1 from 1.4 (I see addres message > timeouts in your log)? > > > I have already tried removing memory, adding memory, changing > > processors, video cards. The only thing that has remained constant is > > the VP6 motherboard and the hard drive. > > My VP6 died on me recently with some funny symptoms: > it hangs in X when I start netscape and move mouse, or if I do > bk clone on kernel tree, it dies with > kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux-2.4.18/include/asm/smplock.h:62! > BUG in various places pretty soon. > (this BUG is only appears if 2 CPUs are present in motherboard). > So if your troubles began only recently, you might want to try another > motherboard just to be sure. I have a VP6 with 2 CPUs. Its has both a PS/2 mouse and a usb mouse. Its been up for 90 days and handled lots of mouse interrupts. See below. CPU0 CPU1 0: 392228152 392338774 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 312494 312380 IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 1 3 IO-APIC-edge serial 12: 40362907 40324010 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse 14: 3386577 3383180 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 679030 672810 IO-APIC-edge ide1 17: 1165246 1162993 IO-APIC-level DC395x_TRM 18: 83937970 83935445 IO-APIC-level ide2, eth0 19: 131956 132468 IO-APIC-level es1371, usb-uhci, usb-uhci NMI: 0 0 LOC: 784686934 784686951 ERR: 191 MIS: 0 Its running a recent kernel. Maybe 2.4.18 is broken. Here's a uname -a Linux flash 2.5.0 #16 SMP Wed Jan 9 16:48:16 EST 2002 i686 unknown johna - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/