RE: Mouse Freezes in XFree 4.1.0.1
Have either of you checked to make sure you don't have gpm running. This is
a common symptom of X and gpm conflicting. Most people don't even need or
want gpm these days. dpkg --purge it if you do have it.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: valentin born [mailto:vb.moewe@gmx.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 5:18 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Mouse Freezes in XFree 4.1.0.1
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running Debian Unstable and I am having some problems.
> >
> > The problem is that after a minute or less, the cursor
> freezes. Sometimes
> > it
> > starts with just acting 'weird & jumpy' and then it
> freezes. Other times
> > it
> > just freezes at without any prior weirdness in movement.
> >
> > Every package on the system should be the newest available,
> according to
> > apt-get.
> >
> > Hope I can find help here, because I would really like to
> make the switch
> > and start using Linux as my desktop OS and not just at the
> server OS.
> >
> > Blackbox is my Windowmanager, but the problem also occurs under
> > Windowmaker
> > (although it seems to happens much faster than under Blackbox).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Troels
> >
> >
> Hi Troels,
>
> unfortunatly i cannot really give you any advice, but i made similar
> experience with woody and the
> trackball of mine - thought it was because of the ImPS/2
> protocol (but the
> trackball should use the
> same protocol, right?) - so maybe it's somewhere in the
> zaxis-setting or ...
> i dont know. - btw i
> never had freezes, but _allways_ this "weirdness" of the
> cursor hopping
> arround, suddenly opening
> windowns...
> my pseudo"advice" - i got out my old ttyS0! not too cool i
> admit - but it
> works!
>
> cu
>
> kamome
>
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