total lockups when resizing a window

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

I get a total lockup occasionally when resizing a window.   It usually 
seems to happen when I make a fairly quick mouse move.  I am running 
woody/sid on 2.2.19pre17.  gpm is running from boot.  I still haven't 
found the right documentation to know whether I should be running gpm or 
not.  The ability to copy text from a text terminal is nice.

I can't telnet in from another machine (ssh will be on that machine when 
I figure out why that machine can't get to the internet) because the 
machine is lockup up too hard.

I have several times done research with Google groups and found lots of 
discussion of variations of this problem but nothing to give a solution 
that makes sense for me at the moment.

Different kernel?

Different mouse speed/sensitivity?

What log files will help here.

TIA for any thoughts.

Paul Scott