On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 17:21, Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > Until today my box (MDK 9.0) had been running fine. Now it locks up hard > at random points during the day requiring a power-cylcle to get it out > of this state. I suspect that apmd may be the culprit but its hard to > tell as I get no indication in the logs. One thing I have noticed though > is the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace sequence that is usually reserved to kill X > seems to put my machine into an halted state.
Upgrading to 2.4.20 seems to of cured my problem for the time being. Or at least I've not had any freezes for a while. > The doesn't seem to be any way of disabling power managment from the > BIOS and I have uninstalled apmd and apm-scripts and am still getting > the same problem. Is there any way to stop this hi-jacking going on? > Who's trapping it and killing my system? According to lkml their is an issue with some SiS chipsets and the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace causing a power down. There is allegedly a kernel patch to disable this behavior but I have yet to get hold of it and try it out. > -- > Alex Bennee > Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd > The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my > employer > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer
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