[gentoo-amd64] 2.6.23-r3 and keyboard freeze

[gentoo-amd64] 2.6.23-r3 and keyboard freeze

[Mark Haney]

I have noticed the last couple of days, since running the latest gentoo
kernel (-r3) that after several hours (and I can't say exactly how long)
with my locked screensaver up, the keyboard stops responding and I have
to power off my laptop.  I don't have hibernation/suspend running on the
laptop since it's mostly a glorified desktop.  Has anyone else seen this?

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.23-r3 and keyboard freeze

[Beso]

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by chance are you using fglrx of the ati-drivers>8.42.2?! it has a memory
leak bug that makes your pc crash after you've been using opengl stuff
(firefox, amarok, and other apps usually use it) if your is an opengl
screensaver then that's probably a cause of this.
i'm using the latest kernel without these problems, but i'm avoiding using
opengl screensaver or letting firefox or amarok running when i'm not at the
pc.
the second stuff: have you not set the automatic hibernation or the
automatic standby by chance and don't remember to have done it?

2007/12/11, Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>:
>
> I have noticed the last couple of days, since running the latest gentoo
> kernel (-r3) that after several hours (and I can't say exactly how long)
> with my locked screensaver up, the keyboard stops responding and I have
> to power off my laptop.  I don't have hibernation/suspend running on the
> laptop since it's mostly a glorified desktop.  Has anyone else seen this?
>
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> Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
>
>
> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
> (828) 350-2415
>
> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
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>


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.23-r3 and keyboard freeze

[Mark Haney]

Beso wrote:
> by chance are you using fglrx of the ati-drivers>8.42.2?! it has a memory
> leak bug that makes your pc crash after you've been using opengl stuff
> (firefox, amarok, and other apps usually use it) if your is an opengl
> screensaver then that's probably a cause of this.
> i'm using the latest kernel without these problems, but i'm avoiding using
> opengl screensaver or letting firefox or amarok running when i'm not at the
> pc.
> the second stuff: have you not set the automatic hibernation or the
> automatic standby by chance and don't remember to have done it?
> 

Hi Beso, actually, I've never setup hibrnate/standby on this laptop.  In
fact prior to upgrading to .23-r3 I never had trouble with leaving it
for hours on but with a locked (and blank) screensaver running.  Now,
the 2 days I've run it with .23-r3 it's dropped the keyboard on me.  I
can move the mouse, but I none of the keys work for me to log back into
the box to shutdown or keep working.

Until the upgrade to .23-r3 I was running the masked original
2.6.23-gentoo kernel with no trouble at all.  It's weird.  I suspect the
kernel, but I've done a bunch of other updates this week as well, so it
could be something else.




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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.23-r3 and keyboard freeze

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007, Mark Haney wrote:
> Beso wrote:
> > by chance are you using fglrx of the ati-drivers>8.42.2?! it has a memory
> > leak bug that makes your pc crash after you've been using opengl stuff
> > (firefox, amarok, and other apps usually use it) if your is an opengl
> > screensaver then that's probably a cause of this.
> > i'm using the latest kernel without these problems, but i'm avoiding
> > using opengl screensaver or letting firefox or amarok running when i'm
> > not at the pc.
> > the second stuff: have you not set the automatic hibernation or the
> > automatic standby by chance and don't remember to have done it?
>
> Hi Beso, actually, I've never setup hibrnate/standby on this laptop.  In
> fact prior to upgrading to .23-r3 I never had trouble with leaving it
> for hours on but with a locked (and blank) screensaver running.  Now,
> the 2 days I've run it with .23-r3 it's dropped the keyboard on me.  I
> can move the mouse, but I none of the keys work for me to log back into
> the box to shutdown or keep working.
>
> Until the upgrade to .23-r3 I was running the masked original
> 2.6.23-gentoo kernel with no trouble at all.  It's weird.  I suspect the
> kernel, but I've done a bunch of other updates this week as well, so it
> could be something else.
>

for a while I suffered 'sudden keyboard death'. I was typing some stuff - and 
suddenly the keyboard was dead. When I switched to a vt, keyboard worked 
again (but not in X) and I had to restart X. I haven't seen this since 2.6.22 
and a lot of X updates. But you might want to try that - use acpid to switch 
to a vt with the power button:
cat /etc/acpi/events/default

event=.*
action=chvt 2
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.23-r3 and keyboard freeze

[Pascal BERTIN]

Hemmann, Volker Armin a écrit :
> On Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007, Mark Haney wrote:
>> Beso wrote:
>>> by chance are you using fglrx of the ati-drivers>8.42.2?! it has a memory
>>> leak bug that makes your pc crash after you've been using opengl stuff
>>> (firefox, amarok, and other apps usually use it) if your is an opengl
>>> screensaver then that's probably a cause of this.
>>> i'm using the latest kernel without these problems, but i'm avoiding
>>> using opengl screensaver or letting firefox or amarok running when i'm
>>> not at the pc.
>>> the second stuff: have you not set the automatic hibernation or the
>>> automatic standby by chance and don't remember to have done it?
>> Hi Beso, actually, I've never setup hibrnate/standby on this laptop.  In
>> fact prior to upgrading to .23-r3 I never had trouble with leaving it
>> for hours on but with a locked (and blank) screensaver running.  Now,
>> the 2 days I've run it with .23-r3 it's dropped the keyboard on me.  I
>> can move the mouse, but I none of the keys work for me to log back into
>> the box to shutdown or keep working.
>>
>> Until the upgrade to .23-r3 I was running the masked original
>> 2.6.23-gentoo kernel with no trouble at all.  It's weird.  I suspect the
>> kernel, but I've done a bunch of other updates this week as well, so it
>> could be something else.
>>
> 
> for a while I suffered 'sudden keyboard death'. I was typing some stuff - and 
> suddenly the keyboard was dead. When I switched to a vt, keyboard worked 
> again (but not in X) and I had to restart X. I haven't seen this since 2.6.22 
> and a lot of X updates. But you might want to try that - use acpid to switch 
> to a vt with the power button:
> cat /etc/acpi/events/default
> 
> event=.*
> action=chvt 2

I still have this problem (on a non amd64 install), and I did something similar to the
above, which you can do as you have a laptop. I use the lid event instead of the power one.

you can do this by changing /etc/acpi/default.sh,
uncomment the lid) section and edit it to look like this :
lid)
	chvt 1
	;;


just close your screen to get to vt 1. this will let your power button work as usual.


As a note,
sometime my keyboard is completely dead, and sometime (I noticed this recently), it is
just very slow (I have to press keys for seomething like 1 second to get the keystroke
(including modifiers (shitf,ctrl,...)).

I googled a bit about this problem, I found (byt having a look in Xorg.log) that this
could be related to some Grabs being taken by application, and that the following option
in the ServerFlags Section of xorg.conf could fix it (by allowing you to release these
Grabs using Ctrl+Alt+KEYPAD_/, unfortunatly, it doesn't on my system.

        Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "true"




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