mysterious keyboard, mouse lockups with FC5 [SOLVED]

[Filippos Klironomos]

Just reporting back to the list that the 'noapic' option in the kernel
arguments solved the mysterious freezes on my Dell XPS machine. Here are a
few keywords for google to pick up:

Dell XPS, freeze, ACPI, APIC, keyboard freeze, mouse freeze, DSDT, crash, no
response

Filippos


On 4/18/06, Filippos Klironomos <presariod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Unfortunatelly that's where everything points at. The DSDT table
> (surprise, surprise) might be
> buggy (surprise, surprise). From what I read here:
>
> http://www.al-najjar.co.uk/
>
> it's most likely that, and of course there is no precompiled DSDT for me
> to use, so I have to dig myself. Ahhh the good old days are back!
> Unfortunately I don't have the time to do that so if the crude patch of
> disabling APIC altogether works for me, I'll stick to it. The only downside
> is that there is no interrupt balancing between the two CPUs but I can still
> use the second, which is what matter to me for now.
>
> If indeed this works, I'll come back with another posting for the next
> poor fellow with a Dell XPS...
>
> I am not trying to take away blame from Fedora, just suggesting
> > possible alternate problems which could be easier resolved - have you
> > taken a look at your BIOS? Maybe there is an option there which FC4
> > dealth with better or ignored.
> >
> > A computer that new should have a pretty advanced BIOS setup.
> >
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