>Sorry to have delayed in writing this, but if I understand your symptoms
>correctly I think I am experiencing the same odd PPP "lockups" with my
>mouse too! It is tremendously erratic, so far as I can tell (perhaps
>because I often continue mousing while downloading or websurfing?), but I
>have definitely noticed it:a web page stops loading until I move the mouse.
>The moment I do move it, the page begins loading again normally again.
>Similar behavior with downloads.
Yes..you understand correctly, and that is exactly what's happening here,
although I'm a bit reserved in blaming it on PPP or netscape. It can
affect anything (if so it feels like it), but you are correct in
indicating it's most noticable with netscape, and then only with pppd
running. The analogy 'tremendously erratic' is surely correct, in essence,
this behaviour is what behooves me. If it were related to any one thing,
say irq gliches, kernel, or something else...you'd expect the problem to
be constant, predictable (ie; it'll happen again for sure), or suchlike
and similar. Not so...it's as fickle as the weather.
>My hardware: MS Serial Intellimouse on COM1 (is that cua0?), Diamond
>Telecommander 3500 (28.8Kbps) on COM2 (is this cua1?). cua0/COM1 is
>IRQ4/03f8; cua1/COM2 is IRQ3/02f8. I dual boot with Win95; it shows no
>conflicts in Device Mangler and I have never experienced this behavior in
>Win95. I had RH4.1 on the box prior to 5.0, and I don't recall ever
>seeing it there either (but I've slept since then, so I could be wrong
>about that).
Unfortunately, the sleep didn't fade your memory :) I concur, but further,
this box has run win3.11, win95, NT4, RHL-3.0.3 AND RHL-4.x before
ungrading (<-hahahahahah) to RHL-5 in Dec '97. I assure you this has only
become an issue since rhl-5 was installed...
>Nothing unusual appears in /var/log/messages, either. My kernel: 2.0.33;
>all relevant errata applied.
Ditto....though I have found no 2.x.x kernel to behave any different.
(including 2.1.x), and the 2.0.33 I use is up to date (errata wise) also.
Initially, (and because of the stoopid nature of it), I didn't approach
this list because I had hoped a fix would come out for it...not so.
Rather, having approached the list on this thus far, I have only seen
yourself & one other also complain of this problem I (we;) have. So,
between the 3 of us, we must have some common denominator.
The comm_port irq's look probably as similar as everyone else's, forget
the modem or cables (swapped out several looking for this), ramfield looks
unlikely (swapped this too, and changed to SDRAM, AND went from 32Mb to
64Mb), cacheram...turned it off, physically removed it, swapped it out
for a known good stick...made no diff.
Yet...we have the same trouble. However unlikely it may seem, I still
have this gut-feeling it's something with the motherboard. As I afore
mentioned, I have discovered my CPU marked as being an intel-P166, has in
fact been remarked to this...it is indeed a cyrix PR150 or something (as
best I can dig up)
Next time you boot your box up, could you note the BIOS number for me
and forward to the list? (the bios number is displayed bottom left of the
bootscreen whilst it's involved ramcounting...hit the 'pause' key if time
is crucial, elsewise the number should also be displayed in the BIOS
screen itself)
We have to find this thing in common we must share, and as yet, the
rhetoric has only pointed to the same *trouble*. I will supply same info
for comparison (bios #) as soon as I reboot this thing :)
cheers!
db
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