Hard Locks

[Tom Donnelly]

Hello all!
This is my first message on here so hopefully I don't screw up.
I am fairly new to FreeBSD, and recently installed 6.2 on my Inspiron XPS. Hardware is as follows:

3.4GHz Pentium 4
2 GB Ram
ATi Mobility Radeon 9800
Broadcom Gig Etherenet (Integrated)
Dell 1350 Trumobile (not functional)
Dlink DWL G630 (Atheros Based) PCMCIA

Whenever I am in KDE or GNOME or any gui for that matter, I get hard locks.
I can expedite this by visiting web pages, but it does seem to happen inconsistancy.
Originally I posted this on bsdforums.org for help, but we havent been able to get far.

http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47072

First we thought it was a keyboard mux problem, so we removed that.
Still no fix.

Then we thought it was an irq conflict
interrupt total rate
irq1: atkbd0 169 0
irq12: psm0 2595 7
irq14: ata0 41981 115
irq15: ata1 47 0
irq19: cbb0 ath0++ 171829 474
cpu0: timer 716536 1979
cpu1: timer 706378 1951
Total 1639535 4529

Once I removed the USB from the Kernel and Sysinstall, the IRQ conflict seemed to go away but the hardlocks still stayed.

The usb.ko is not in the kldstat -v

The current interrupt is 
irq1: atkbd0
irq12: psm0
irq14: ata0
irq15: ata1
cpu0: timer

There is little consistancy to these hard locks and no logs seem to be left.
The only thing that makes a difference is visitng web sites speeds up the hardlock (usually 2 -3 web pages)

Any ideas?


Thanks!
-=Tom Donnelly

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