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 1Plhv2-0002Js-Em for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:11:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33BBAE08D4; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:09:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF11EE08D4 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC49DF1C6 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:09:29 +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 4JGm8K12u-Mr for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:09:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B185DF18E for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:09:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:09:27 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201102041636.20270.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: 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=_HwUTNcxyKvuBfip" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102051309.27808.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 862c088116f8ef77e67e4b23ba96b911 --Boundary-01=_HwUTNcxyKvuBfip Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Friday 04 February 2011 18:12:50 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > 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. > > Perhaps try a newer kernel version, if you can. I think there was one > in 2.6.35 era that did that kind of stuff... I'll look into that - thanks. Meanwhile, yesterday I even had a lockup while running from the live CD, so installing on this box is more a matter of luck than usual. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. --Boundary-01=_HwUTNcxyKvuBfip Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Friday 04 February 2011 18:12:50 Paul Hartman wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Peter Humphrey

> <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> > 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.

> Perhaps try a newer kernel version, if you can. I think there was one

> in 2.6.35 era that did that kind of stuff...

I'll look into that - thanks. Meanwhile, yesterday I even had a lockup while running from the live CD, so installing on this box is more a matter of luck than usual.

Rgds

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

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