mouse/keyboard hangs with FC1 on Dell Inspiron 7500

[Edward]

Michael wrote:

> Summary
> -------
> About once a week this system hangs and stops responding to mouse/keyboard
> events.
> 
> What can I do to help track down the cause of this intermittent problem?
> 

Does it do this while you're using it or when you're away from the console?

Regards,
Ed.

> 
> Detail
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> OS: Fedora Core 1
> Desktop manager: Gnome
> Hardware: Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop w/P3 750 + 256 MB + 12 Gb
> Network: SMC 2632W WiFi
> 
> About once a week this system hangs and stops responding to mouse/keyboard
> events.
> 
> Neither the built-in touchpad nor an external USB mouse works.
> 
> ctl-alt-del does not work.
> 
> The system does not crash. I can ssh in from another system, kill a few
> processes, and the system keeps running.
> 
> Once I had to kill OpenOffice. Once I had to kill AOL Instant Messenger.
> After doing this the system seems to keep running normally.
> 
> The system was recently converted to FC1 from Win2K. To try to rule out
> hardware problems, I have run memtest86 for 24+ hours and hard drive
> diagnostics for 24+ hours.
> 
> I plan on upgrading to the FC2 test releases to see if the behavior
> continues.
> 
> I have been running RedHat for many years and have FC1 on several other
> hardware configs. I have never seen this type of problem.
> 
> As I said, when this happens I can get into the system via ssh.
> 
> Q: Is there any way that I can try to track down this type of problem?
> 
> Q: Can I turn on some type of logging so that I can collect more data?
> 
> Q: To me it feels like a driver problem. But then, why is it affecting
> both mouse and keyboard?
> 
> Q: Any other ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Michael
> 
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