On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Mr MailingList wrote: > > Hi have a very irritating problem and so far I have been unable to find a > solution to it. > > I have supermicro P3TDDE mob with VIA Apollo 266 chipset and SuSe 9.1 with > kernel 2.6.5-7.95-smp. The problem is that if I leave the PC unattended i.e > there is no keyboard or mouse IO activity for about 20 minutes those input > devices get disabled. The keyboard and mouse is connected the PC via Belkin > KVM USB switch. Looking through the message file I found that the following > recodes being logged each time it happens (see below). So far the only remedy > is to telnet to the machine and reboot it. I suspect that the problem must > the combination of 2.6 kernel and the hardware. I did not have this problem > with kernel 2.4 or I don't have this problem when I dual boot to XP. I have > another supermicro mob (on the same Belkin KVM switch), P6DBE - BX based, > running the same kernel and that PC does not have this problem. I can leave > it for hours and nothing happens. I wonder if it's possible somehow to > reenable the IRQ11. As I said the problem is very irritating since every time > I go to make myself a coffee I have to turned blasted PC off. > > Thanks - Tom > > Jun 24 07:18:51 linux kernel: irq 11: nobody cared! > Jun 24 07:18:51 linux kernel: Call Trace: > Jun 24 07:18:51 linux kernel: [__report_bad_irq+36/144]
A quick search on google suggests there are/were a lot of these, possibly related to the IRQ handler rather than the individual drivers. Possible workarounds, in increasing order of pain, might include booting with whatever the option is to disable apic, using a non-smp kernel (if you only have one cpu, of course), trying a newer kernel from SuSe if there is one, or trying a newer kernel from kernel.org. This looks the sort of thing where you might need to try the latest 2.6.8-rc or even -mm (if it isn't fixed in 2.6.7). These aren't normally recommended, particularly for production boxes, but I guess it isn't in production if you telnet to it. Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
