[ltp] logless freeze

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:15:37 -0300


On Fri, 08 Sep 2006, William O'Connell wrote:
> Running gentoo with kernel 2.6.17.6 on a Thinkpad t60. Has anyone else
> discovered a solution to the weird occasional freezes on this thinkpad
> model? An earlier post said that it results from excessive use of USB
> ports, and since I experience this problem most often when using my
> external hard drive, I think that is probably the source of my problem
> too.

Trying 2.6.18-rc6 might help, there were fixes for the Intel ICH uhci/ehci
drivers, and also (I think) for other stuff that affects MSI-X PCIe systems,
like the *60 ThinkPads.

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  Henrique Holschuh