X crashes when switching from VC
Hi all,
Occasionally when I switch from a VC back to X(alt-f7) and try and use
the mouse immediately X crashes and exits. If I don't use the mouse
for a couple of seconds it does not crash. I am running xdm but have
had it happen when just starting X using xinit. I am running gpm on
the VC's. The error message when it crashes is:
"Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy)
xdm error (pid 226): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1"
Gpm is started with the distributed init.d/gpm script and my /etc/gpm.conf
file has the following lines in it.
device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=
type=ps2
append=""
The pointer section of XF86Config is:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse"
Emulate3Buttons
Emulate3Timeout 100
EndSection
/dev/mouse is a soft link to /dev/psaux
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jan 11 16:54 mouse -> psaux
My graphics card is a Diamond Stealth 64 with a S3 Trio64 chip and 2M
Dram running in 8bit 1280x1024 mode(which by the way I can't even get
Win95 to do!).
I know that if I don't use the mouse right away it won't crash but I
don't think that should be the solution. Any helpful hints ideas on
what is going on?
Thanks,
Brian Servis
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Mechanical Engineering servis@ecn.purdue.edu
Purdue University http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
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