AMD64 machine stability problem

[David Xu]

Sometimes, I got wrong Caps Lock status, if I press key '4', it displays '$'
in mozilla email client, but at the time, Caps Lock light is off.

David Xu


Xin LI wrote:

>I guess there are something strange happening in sys/dev/syscons.  My
>laptop (i386 based) crashes about 25% times when I start GNOME, and the
>possibility raises when I have the VESA High Resolution Console patch
>applied, therefore I still don't want to commit it :-(
>
>在 2005-02-20日的 14:04 +0800，David Xu写道：
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>>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
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>>>>Now, I can always reproduce it:
>>>>just run "find /usr/src " in gnome termimal, it will reboots in
>>>>five seconds.
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>>>What happens if you enter the same find command on a console
>>>session?  (ie, outside of X11)
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>>running it on a console never reboots, works just fine.
>>I also switched graphics card, and run it under X11, it still reboots.
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>Cheers,
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