On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:13 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Wednesday, September 12, 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > does it make any difference when you boot the box with: > > > > nohz=off > > > > on the kernel command line ? > > Yeah, that makes a difference: the box hangs when I start receiving > vblank interrupts instead. However it's not a hard hang, I think X > just becomes unresponsive. I can still hit the power button on the > laptop and the machine shuts down gracefully, but ctl-alt-delete and > ctl-alt-backspace don't work. So X is probably still up and in charge > of input but may not be getting any more timeslices or something.
Eeek, that sounds scary. Can you add "highres=off" as well ? tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/