[ltp] tpb freezups?

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 08:01:09PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
>  > On 12/8/06, Mendel Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com> wrote:
> >>A31 TP, FC6 --
> >>The tpb (Thinkpad Buttons) daemon seems to cause intermittent freezups.
> >>X server stops responding, keyboard unresponsive, ditto eraserhead mous=
e,
> >>etc., and this necessitates a power off.
> >>
> >>This happens only when online and on certain websites. I think it=20
> >>might be because of Java or cgi scripts that the web pages cause to be=
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> >>executed.
> >>
> >>This didn't start happening until after I upgraded to FC6.
> >>
> >>Anyone else seen anything like this happening?
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> I saw it happen frequently on my A22p, about a year ago, and in the end,=
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> I decided to forgo the nice on-screen display, and live without it. The=
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> freezes are caused because of some APM/ACPI bug (it has to poll=20
> /dev/nvram) - I think your observation about web pages is most likely=20
> coincidental.
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> I don't know whether it's the kernel or userspace bit that's to blame,=20
> but you might try testing with the kernel and/or tpb from FC5. [While=20
> testing, you can probably get away with forcing RPM to do the install=20
> (if you have to) since they won't have any important interdependencies]

I never had problems with tpb.  I had system freezes caused by the
radeon driver.

Marius Gedminas
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