On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.27.0147 +0100]: > > Bad luck for you :-) For me the system would freeze less than .5 > > seconds every 3 or 4 seconds. Just enough to make me wonder whether I > > was given de-caf by mistake... > > The phenomenon of the mouse freezing or keyboard input being delayed > does coincide with IDE/hdd activity. > > But the problem of forgotten keystrokes (and randomly repeating > letters[1]) does not need to happen with a hdd access. > > 1. i *touch* 'i' and suddenly, iiiii appears, or similar. Happens > for all keys rarely but noticably, and probably has something to > do with the random keystrokes being lost.
Damn. I don't think I will ever touch Dell laptops ever again. My own I4000 has had problems, such as 2 wonky HD's, but they just seem so damn unreliable, and have a lot of bios bugs. My own thought about the KB is - with mine, If I use the tleds package to blink the keyboard leds AND have an externel keyboard plugged in, then whenever one of the leds change state, then the KB won't register a keypress within x milliseconds of the led changing state. This manifests itself as a loss of every 20th or so keypress. It seems the Dell KB controllers just can't think of 2 things at once - I have never had this problem on any other computer. Also - your hdd statement: try unmasking interrupts using hdparm. This helps modem traffic a lot, and might also help the KB - if there is a lot of hdd activity (and laptop disks are very slow), then the KB just never gets a chance to signal to the CPU that "HEY! LOOK HERE. I HAVE A KEYSTROKE FOR YOU. FEED ME!". :) As for the temperature thing, can you cat /proc/apm and the i8k file under /proc (I can't remember what is is called - perhaps you might have to do a strace on i8kutils when it reads the temperature from the kernel, if it is not obviously under /proc) when there is a problem, and then again when there is not a problem? Is this flavour laptop aimed more at APM or ACPI for power management? The newer ones tend to work better on ACPI than APM. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Bus error -- driver executed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
