This one time, at band camp, François Le Lay said: > Hi all, > I installed Debian 3.0 Woody on a Sony VAIO PCG-F580 Laptop. Things are > pretty good BUT my system hangs randomly, sometimes after 10 hours, > sometimes after 10 minutes, wether I use KDE or Gnome. I use a regular > PS2 mouse on /dev/psaux and everything gets frozen, Ctrl-Alt-BckSpace > doesn't kill X, have to reboot and enjoy fsck'ing. I checked my /var/log/X* > and it mentions this at the end: > > "XFree86 is not able to detect your mouse. > Edit the file and correct the Device. > > Your XF86Config file is /root/XF86Config.new" > > So I think we can be sure that at a certain point X is lacking a device > wether it be because of upstream buggy code or not. I use a XFree NeoMagic > server (NM2380) and use set Software Cursor to TRUE. Here is my XF86Config-4: <snip most of config> > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > EndSection <snip more> The mouse section looks fine to me. How are you starting X that it's looking for /root/XF86Config.new? startx should just use /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, as should the login managers. Part of the problem here might be that you actually have two mice - one on the laptop itself and one hooked up to the ps2 port. You should have two configurations for them, IIRC. Maybe this is causing problems? > Is there anybody here who's going through the same problem? > For now I copied my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to /root/XF86Config.new since it > looks like the server was looking for it the log mentionned here above and it > was actually an empty file... Just a guess, still no crash for now after 30 > minutes... > > Thanks, > François HTH, Steve -- "...a most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn!" -- _Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure_
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