Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially broken
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 10:46, Nick Bailey wrote:
> > >Thridly (out of two 8-): the mouse crashes when exiting KDE.
> > >I've not seen this in a bug report. It's a USB one and works
> > >fine until you exit KDE. The remapping of F11 and F12 as the
> > >two mouse buttons works fine too (just left the stuff in from
> > >Potato). I know there's a way to go yet before Woody gets
> > >release, but I wanted to be ready 8-)
> >
> > What do you mean by "crash" ? It stops responding ? You can get
> > it back after killing & relaunching it or not ? Could be a gpm
> > configuration problem...
>
> GPM is not installed, as we really only ever use X and it gave me grief a long
> time ago on intel platforms, so I tend to do without it. Should I be running
> GPM and feeding the XServer from that? I think I understand how that works, but
> it seemed a bit complicated to me.
Absolutely, while that's another possible workaround, I suspect there
should be a better one.
> The mouse locks up, but the keyboard is fine. KDE exits cleanly, it seems.
> When kdm comes back, I can tab down to Shutdown, and select reboot using the
> keyboard, but the mouse is frozen (pointer in the middle of the screen); it's
> just that it isn't the Unix way to reboot after each session 8-)
Of course not, doesn't kdm also have an option to restart the X server
though?
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Reply to: