[ltp] display, cursor, keyboard hang, T40, RH9

[Neil Weisenfeld]

Hello, Otis.  

If you're running the original RedHat 9 kernel and not one of the more
recent errata kernels, I think that DMA disk I/O was not properly
supported since the new chipset in the T40p was not recognized.   

Try:

hdparm /dev/hda

as root and see if using_dma is 1 (on).



Neil



> Hello,
> 
> I am a new user of Linux on a TP.  I've been using Linux on
> desktop for years.
> 
> I have RedHat 9.0 installed on a T40 ThinkPad.
> I noticed that my xterm (gnome-terminal) likes to freeze/hang
> sometimes.  This tends to happen when I'm doing things like
> copying large files over the network using scp, or when I am
> unpacking some large archive.
> 
> The symptoms are that my cursor disapears for a few seconds, and
> my keyboard become completely unresponsive for a few seconds.
> 
> Is this a normal thing?
> Does this happen when the machine is in some kind of a sleeping
> mode?
> 
> Thanks,
> Otis
> 
> 
>