APIC causes vr0 watchdog timeouts and Interrupt storms

[Chris Laverdure]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 04:49, Justin Settle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently installed 5.3-BETA.  After booting, I found was unable to use
> my usb mouse or my ethernet (Via-rhine).  I started tinkering with the
> kernel and found that if I disabled APIC, this system worked without
> ethernet issues or mouse isssues.  After talking with some people they
> suggested I post boot -v, dmesg's of the different kernels so here they
> are: 
> 
> The first thing I tried was a GENERIC with SMP commented out.  It had
> the same issues as GENERIC:
> 
...
> ACPI is on both of these kernels but I've tried both without and the
> results are the same.  Should any other information be needed/wanted
> I'll be sure to reply.  Thank you for your time.
> 
> Jay Settle
> 

I too cannot use my USB mouse with ACPI enabled (yet it works fine
without it). I get a Interrupt Storm when usbd tries to come up, and
then moused fails claiming an "Input/Output error on /dev/ums0".

I would love to get to the bottom of this.