From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: keyboard and USB problems (Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm2)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:10:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040123211051.GB12647@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074888902.12442.51.camel@localhost>
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:15:03PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > > If that is going to cause problems, then we'll need to pull out the
> > > use-pmtmr-for-delay_pmtmr patch. I guess our only option is then to use
> > > the TSC for delay_pmtrm() (as a loop based delay fails in other cases).
> > > I'll write that up and send it your way, Andrew.
> >
> > I've seen the PM timer breaking the mouse operation rather badly in the
> > past, the lost-sync check was triggering for many people when the PM
> > timer was used. This implies time inacurracy in the range of 0.5
> > seconds. Could that happen somehow?
>
> Not in a way that I yet understand. Do you see similar problems with
> folks using clock=pit?
Yes, I do. However in several cases using clock=pit cured the problem.
In other cases the problem was cured by killing a battery applet in X.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-23 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-23 9:37 2.6.2-rc1-mm2 Andrew Morton
2004-01-23 13:30 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm2 Thomas Schlichter
2004-01-23 17:59 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm2 john stultz
2004-01-23 15:12 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm2 Ed Tomlinson
2004-01-23 18:43 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm2 Andrew Morton
2004-01-24 0:46 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm2 Ed Tomlinson
2004-01-23 16:01 ` keyboard and USB problems (Re: 2.6.2-rc1-mm2) Rudo Thomas
2004-01-23 16:19 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-23 18:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-23 22:16 ` More timer/bogomip damage (was " Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-23 19:27 ` john stultz
2004-01-23 19:54 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-23 20:15 ` john stultz
2004-01-23 21:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2004-01-24 0:26 ` [PATCH] use-tsc-for-delay_pmtmr.patch john stultz
2004-01-23 17:08 ` 2.6.2-rc1-mm2 (compile stats) John Cherry
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