https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214247 ------- Comment #8 from j.keet@wandromeda.demon.nl 2006-11-02 14:45 MST ------- My first thoughts also were buggy nForce430 hardware, and they still are. A lot (all?) of Dell Dimension E521's have this weird problem, but it only seems to appear under 64-bits linux. But I start to believe that other systems with nForce430 also have this problem. Knoppix works, but is 32bit (the working version). Windows XP-32 works. All other Linux 2.6 64 (x86_64) distro's fail. Tested SuSE10.1 boxed-version myself, also tested Knoppix myself. SuSE10.1 tested with A LOT of different kernels and kernel-parameters. Kernels worked fine, but -with- 'our' problem. Windows-64 (??) I don't know, but I fear. Placing a separate usb pci32 card works (not tested myself, but by others, and this also was one of my first thoughts), but is in the E521 not a good option due to lack of many pci32 slots and other reasons. Using an external usb hub (with power-adapter) seems to improve a little, but as stated by Jürgen Maier it can have trouble with boot-up and keyb/mouse recognization. But it is NO fix. Working with the system it STILL freezes the mouse, it only takes (a little) longer sometimes. First time I tried it myself (2 weeks ago) I really thought it worked, but no, after a while still the freeze and the irq lossage kernel message. I hope this can be workarounded in the kernel. A lot of GNU/Linux2.6-64-SMP users would be helped with it. Let's hope nVidia will admit these bugs, just as they did with the infamous 80-ns apic bug in nForce2 and the pin-1 bug also in nForce2. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.