On 24 Apr., 18:13, Neil Ellwood <cral.elllwo...@bt.openworld.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:14:52 -0700, martin.hofherr wrote:
> > On 24 Apr., 09:11, Neil Ellwood <cral.elllwo...@bt.openworld.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:59:46 +0200, MartinH wrote:
> >> > Neil Ellwood wrote:
>
> >> >> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:19:53 +0200, Martin Hofherr wrote:
>
> >> >>> Hello Everybody,
>
> >> >>> I recently installed Debian Etch with a 2.6.18-amd64 Kernel on my
> >> >>> Dell Dimension C521. Everything works fine except that from time to
> >> >>> time the keyboard and/or the mouse freeze. It is still possible to
> >> >>> log in via ssh but I can't restart kdm or X. Can this have to do
> >> >>> with my Asus wl-167g wireless-lan adaptor(ralink rt73 chipset)?
> >> >>> Neither /var/log/Xorg.0.log nor /var/log/messages report any error.
>
> >> >>> Thanks, Martin
>
> >> >> This may or even may not help but is worth a try if you don't mind
> >> >> re- installing.
>
> >> >> When you put your first disc in and restart wait until the first
> >> >> screen and then press F1 - try install noapic nolapic and press
> >> >> enter.
>
> >> >> HTH
> >> > Hi Neil, thanks for your reply I'm going to try that. When I
> >> > installed I used the option acpi=off. Could this also have an effect
> >> > on this problem?
>
> >> > Martin
>
> >> Yes it can help - helped me. Trust Dell to do things in its own wat
> >> like ms. As you might guess mine is a Dimension 521 as well. --
> >> Neil
> >> reverse ra and delete l
> >> Linux user 335851
>
> > I reinstalled Debian now with the parameters noapic nolapic acpi=off
>
> > And again... after two hours the mouse suddenly froze. Only this time I
> > was still
> > able to use the keyboard.
>
> > Have you installed 64 bit or 32 bit version?
>
> 64 bit. but am trying 'Ubuntu' with xfce at the moment and it doesn't
> look as though I will keep it very long. Not a patch on Debian. I find
> that I am not keeping the computer running as long as I used to so maybe
> that is why it didn't happen to the last time I ran Debian (last week).
> --
> Neil
> reverse ra and delete l
> Linux user 335851
I'm going to try fedora on another partition of my hd and see if I get
the same problem
there...