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Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2 PS2 keyboard gone south
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 20:05 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.

I have a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse.