Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2 PS2 keyboard gone south

From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_at_joe-job.com)
Date: 07/31/04

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    To: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:05:46 -0400

    On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 19:21, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
    > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 13:38 -0400, Shane Shrybman wrote:
    >
    > > > M5 does that differently, yes - so could you try it? If you still get
    > > > problems, does this fix it:
    > >
    > > Ok, M5 locked up the whole machine within a few seconds of starting X.
    >
    > Me too, with voluntary-preempt=3... It seems I can trigger this randomly
    > by heavily moving the mouse around while logging in into my KDE session.
    >
    > However, with voluntary-preempt=2 I've been unable to lock the machine
    > yet.

    It looks like this is a mouse problem, I have a PS/2 keyboard and USB
    mouse and have not had any problems yet with M5. I also found that with
    L2, I could toggle Caps Lock fast enough to get significantly 'ahead' of
    it, this no longer happens with M5.

    Lee

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