On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm having problems with hard lockups on the system with distressing > regularity -- up to several times a day, sometimes while in use, > sometimes while sitting unattended or idle. I suspect either video or > APM is leading to the problems (though I can't confirm either yet), and > this may be related to recent Debian updates as the problem appears to > be getting worse. It could be degrading hardware, but I don't have > anything to pin it on yet. .... Not that I know the answer.
Since your lockup is not just KB but system itself (telnet throgh ethernet seems not to work). It is different from what I exoerienced with my Toshiba notebook. For my toshiba, it was conflict between pcmcia drivers and gpm initialization. By swapping init script, I could get it work. (It was hard immediate KB freeze after booting.) My suggestion is change BIOS APM settings to some extremes and test it. Also there are many options for apm in kernel. So create several types to see what happens. Maybe try different init order especially pcmcia and apm in your case. I would set BIOS not to go to sleep mode at all and leave everything to Linux.... ;-) Good luck. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
