From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 9: 5:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652DD37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:05:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA7E43ED8 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:05:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com (Exim 4.12 #1 (FreeBSD)) protocol: local id 18X2Zy-000Nmv-00 ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:04:22 +0300 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:04:22 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Nate Lawson Cc: Trent Nelson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System freeze running -current Message-ID: <20030110170422.GF46573@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20030104175525.GA9667@limekiln.vcisp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: "I was playing poker the other night ... with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." -- Steven Wright X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: Blackbox X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.1i (2002-05-02) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 8:01PM up 2 days, 3:47, 2 users, load averages: 0.27, 0.47, 0.49 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nate Lawson [20030109 21:34]: wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Trent Nelson wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:16:57AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > Sounds like an atkbd or syscons problem. > > > Did you suspend the laptop and resume before this happens? > > > > No. However, it happened to me today shorty after I issued a sysctl > > -w hw.acpi.cpu.economy_speed=8. (Why does it default to 4 anyway?) > > Try Taku-san's patch. I'm unfamiliar with this section of acpi so I can't > help here. > > > > How does "unset acpi_load" at the boot prompt change things? > > > > Well, I can't reproduce it consistently, so it'll be hard to determ- > > ine if disabling ACPI does the trick. > > > > I also noticed I was able to drop into the debugger and the keyboard > > works fine in it. Can you suggest what I should be looking for? > > I don't know. I was just trying to get you to post more information so > others could help also. I'd suspect an interrupt problem if it works in > ddb but not at the console. Can you supply dmesg for boot with acpi as > well as after "unset acpi_load"? I'm curious about the atkbd probe line > in particular. Just to add my $0.02 cents, I've seen my box freeze momentarily since I updated to -current two days ago, but I haven't yet done enough to capture the event that causes this. If there is some info I need to provide, I'll be more than willing to take the matter up. When is this "unset acpi_load" done? I can provide the info rqd. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) The qotc (quote of the con) was Liz's: "My brain is paged out to my liver" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message