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Re: Mysterious G5 Freezes


On 23 Sep 2004, at 20:05, Godfrey van der Linden wrote: 

There are several different types of freezing and hangs.

 From hardest on down there is
1> Interrupt loop, we use level based interrupts if your driver doesn't
clear an interrupt on your card then the system causes an infinite loop
with interrupts mostly disabled to get the interrupt processed.  When
this happens the mouse stops moving and sometimes you can't even 'NMI'
into the system.


Out of curiousity - any reason why the problem device isn't timed out and removed from the system (with a notification) as a dud device/driver, rather than torching the rest of the Mac?


Regards,
		Jose.

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