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 1QWCS0-0002n1-Gf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:05:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EC511C1CA for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 199141C0BF for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:58:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yic15 with SMTP id 15so3303889yic.40 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:58:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=qXMJGJhW3ya0N9Im7oan+C/GMsB5gMpEkdPbchNPu00=; b=WJYfgY0iyZSNEmulFB75oZF5MJuAmwGMnRlXdSCkL4tKnHuw8wL4zVY/LWytzdcu1i Q1p/UFS2lVsQYl1meCJG9WCDkVX2zyXRJ/NM70MMUvCajsSpS6rmkSiF9Y12uczXN4nh zptR/2U4u5Exfv3drX7aX9BwcnoaU/lgaY3g0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RHhoGhz4S0KG5T5WcgmUahtb1WQlKyjrSbsTf2Xbeqlg9Ya40DpVskcjDuQ73pEQJD dSrARqUsH9wPIsRrTGVjDD1XD9f7YxGNHV3CI3h7v1tdjTWexRZPoWtf5B08KUjlPSYd mW+IPFji8gkgBccQa/zEp4FCwpueOxf+Q11GY= Received: by 10.236.155.36 with SMTP id i24mr8198395yhk.280.1307991488597; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-122-125.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.122.125]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w66sm2947007yhi.66.2011.06.13.11.58.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DF65DBE.9090508@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:58:06 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110606 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about the magic Sys Req keys References: <4DF5D5DF.7080205@gmail.com> <2883677.zSInyINOc4@localhost> In-Reply-To: <2883677.zSInyINOc4@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ff40b11700113f49608678bc2f10fda6 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Monday 13 June 2011 04:18:23 Dale wrote: > > >> So, my question is this. What kind of lock up could keep the magic keys >> from working? This is on my new amd64 machine. >> > everything that kills the interrupt handler. > > everything that prevents the kernel from acting on interrupts it received > > everything that locks up the CPU > > Thanks for all the replies. It appears I am on the right track. I most likely have a bad kernel. It's been a while since I had one of those. I guess one has to get through every once in a while. Oh, I have a nvidia card. Thanks Dale :-) :-)