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I've just installed woody for my
brother,
I'm using the software that comes with woody only
at this moment in time.
(Though an older kernel is still used as I've not
found the time to put a decent one on, as I installed potato then
upgraded)
So kernel = 2.2.18
Debian dist = woody
The computer has an old mouse attached to it for
now, it is attached to a PS2 port.
GPM works happily with the mouse and has had no
problems what so ever.
In X however I the mouse tends to freeze, some
times for only a short period of time, sometimes it unfreezes if I kill a random
program and return to the X window.
I first thought it must be that the computer is
doing a lot of work and is freezing while it's working but all thats been
running is Mozzila and a couple of xterms. (fvwm window manager)
And the computer is a decent AMD K7 CPU and 40 gig
HDD, 256 megs of ram and a large swap partition (which is way to big
really)
So I thought that unlikely.
I had some trouble getting it to work initally as
if the mouse is setup in X on /dev/mouse the mouse wouldn't work at all so it is
setup as /dev/psaux instead which appears to work except for this random
freezing.
I can't think of anything being amazingly obvious
that I've missed (and I'll get hold of some more exact details later) but if
anyone has any ideas of something stupidly obvious I could have overlooked do
please say, else I'll continue my trial and error method to fix this
problem.
(hmm, mouse driver/type may need double checking
but it shouldn't freeze as far as I can see)
Daniel
(Note, could any responses be sent to my e-mail as
well as the list as I'm slightly reluctant to sign up, my mailbox being full of
maillist junk as it is)
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