On 04/06/2011 03:21 PM, John Mellor wrote:
> 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?
>
I wonder if this is a "missed interrupts" problem.
Is the mouse's IRQ shared with some other device?

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