On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 18:33, Chris Elston wrote:
I'm running Severn on a Dell Inspiron 8100. To get it to even work, I had to disable ACPI, which may or may not be contributing to my problems. Everything else is normal, even installed all packages during the preliminary install.
My first problem occurs semi-randomly. While running X, my keyboard will stop responding. Everything else seems fine, the keyboard just stops working. I can't go to a virtual desktop (no keyboard), can't use any system config tools (asks for root password) or anything, so I'm forced to completely reboot. Doesn't seem to matter what window manager I'm using as this problem has occured in both Gnome/Metacity and WindowMaker.
I can reproduce this on Shrike fairly consistently. I have an IBM Thinkpad T22 Laptop and a Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card. If I transfer large amounts of data in a burst I get this problem, eg ftp a big file, or try and run a remote application using X. Normal web browing and ssh usage are fine. Note that the mouse and screen still work fine.
I noted that when this happens the system also stopped responding to the wireless network - even though I know the IP address I couldn't ping or ssh into the laptop.
My plan - when I had some time - was to try and get the system to hang while using the wireless, but have the ethernet up as well to see if I could get in using that instead.
I haven't upgraded to Severn yet - unfortunately I need this system to be functional for work....
Keith.