martin.hofherr@googlemail.com wrote:
> On 24 Apr., 19:51, martin.hofh...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
>> 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...
>>
>
> Same problem again.... the mouse and keyboard hangs in fedora too.
> Maybe it is an hardware bug or a problem with X.org.
>
X.org is not the "same" in both distros. Also, software rarely acts up
after a certain length of time.
I suspect hardware. Try another mouse to see if it is the mouse, or the
mouse port. Hopefully is is a cheap mouse, and probably dieing from heat.
You can also use a serial mouse if you want to go that route for
testing, but if you do, you will have switched both the mouse and the
port hardware, so isolation is not likely.
--
John
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