On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 10:31 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 07:20:40 PM compdoc wrote:
> > So what you're saying is, while the M-Audio 1010 is working the ps/2 stuff
> > fails, and when the M-Audio 1010 has stopped working due to
> > suspend/hibernate the PS/2 stuff works fine. Coincidence?
> > 
> > I find it odd that anything would interfere with a ps/2 keyboard, since it's
> > on such a low and well known IRQ. Keyboard is 1 and mouse is 12.
> 
> I've seen issues with the M-Audio Delta 1010 and other Envy24-based boards 
> with IRQ steering; I have a laptop with a dock that has a PCI slot in it, and 
> have run a Delta 1010LT (same Envy24/ICE1712 chip; and it's the older 'still 
> works with Linux/ALSA' version) in it.  
> 
> If I loaded the nvidia kmod, the nvidia GPU grabs an IRQ; just so happens the 
> PCI slot in the dock and the GPU share the same physical INT line, and either 
> the nvidia or the Envy24's driver apparently doesn't handle IRQ sharing very 
> well.  With the nvidia kmod loaded, I get frequent ALSA xruns, which glitch 
> the audio.  Running the alternative nvidia drivers found in Fedora just 
> causes performance to drop substantially; I then get JACK xruns, and still 
> have glitches.... This is both with and without the preemption-RT patched 
> kernel.  But it was an older Fedora; haven't tried in a while, since I 
> installed the Delta 1010LT somewhere else and began using a different audio 
> interface on the laptop.
> 
> To the OP: try putting the Delta 1010 in a different physical PCI slot, or 
> use a USB keyboard (just make sure, using 'cat /proc/interrupts' that the 
> ice1712 entry has its own IRQ and doesn't share with anything else).

Interesting.  I have the opposite problem on my abit motherboard.  The
PS2 mouse happens to work and my preferred USB mouse just locks up about
5 times per day.

Is this a known problem with a simple fix?

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