From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PlOfc-0004PU-4T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:38:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2E4EE080A; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95030E080A for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BFBDF166 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:36:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rss6DEaXSH7d for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:36:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748C8DF137 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:36:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:36:20 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References:

<4D4A63DD.7000603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D4A63DD.7000603@gmail.com> X-KMail-Markup: true Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_EsCTN+xbEipcxMp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102041636.20270.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7bb2165604992c91c1f88094c2bf4c9b --Boundary-01=_EsCTN+xbEipcxMp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thursday 03 February 2011 08:14:21 Dale wrote: > I'm just glad to have something that doesn't kill my mouse and > keyboard. ;-) At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem on my workstation. It runs Gentoo fine (well, sluggishly) but when I installed Fedora 14 to try it, I found the mouse and keyboard freezing (but not the display) at random times that ranged from one minute to several hours. When that happened I tried to log in via SSH but got a no-route- to-host error. Then I remembered that the same thing had happened months earlier with Mandriva. Anyone here have an idea? I've tried switching off everything I can think of in the BIOS, but no joy. Temperatures are fine according to gkrellm. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. --Boundary-01=_EsCTN+xbEipcxMp Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Thursday 03 February 2011 08:14:21 Dale wrote:

> I'm just glad to have something that doesn't kill my mouse and

> keyboard. ;-)

At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem on my workstation. It runs Gentoo fine (well, sluggishly) but when I installed Fedora 14 to try it, I found the mouse and keyboard freezing (but not the display) at random times that ranged from one minute to several hours. When that happened I tried to log in via SSH but got a no-route-to-host error. Then I remembered that the same thing had happened months earlier with Mandriva.

Anyone here have an idea? I've tried switching off everything I can think of in the BIOS, but no joy. Temperatures are fine according to gkrellm.

Rgds

Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

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