Re: acer 630 weird mouse behavior & keyboard freeze

["Giuseppe Ciotta" <giuppi@acaro.org>]

Ivar Alm writes: 

> At 17:54 2003-01-27, Giuseppe Ciotta wrote:
> > hi! i have an acer 630 laptop, using it, sometimes (today happened 4 
> > times) the mouse cursor do weird movements on the screen and the keyboard 
> > is unusable, the only solution is to kill XFree and restart it, and i 
> > lost all of my unsaved work :(
> > what could it be ?
> > i use a 2.4.21-pre3 + acpi kernel (but i had the same problem with 2.4.20 
> > + acpi)
> > any ideas ? this really makes me impossible to work!
>
> gpm often has some strange effects on mouse in X. If it also may affect 
> the keyboard seems unlikely, but for the mouse problems, kill gpm. 
>
> //I
well I obviously tried without gpm and there is the same problem, btw i use 
gpm as a repeater to /dev/gpmdata, and X reads from it.