On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:29:12PM -0600, Cam wrote: > mouse or do anything w/ ctrl+alt+backspace, sysrq, etc. the only > thing i can possibly think of being an issue is maybe my nvidia > drivers (i did recompile the module for my new kernel). any tips for > maybe narrowing this down better? I'd start with a stock Debian kernel -- or at least the kernel you had before you recompiled. On a lark: which kernel version are you running? I'm running Ubuntu on one of my machines, and one of the earlier kernel versions interacted badly with GNOME. inotify turned out to be the problem, and adding 'noinotify' to the kernel options in grub solved that problem. They did eventually patch both GNOME and the kernel to fix this, and I've turned inotify back on with no problems. On the off chance that it *is* the inotify bug, moving the mouse seems to cause it; if you can get to a place where you can normally reproduce the bug, but do everything with the keyboard (Ctrl+Q to quit, Ctrl+Tab to go to the next tab, etc.), see if it still appears. The inotify bug never showed up for me unless I moved the mouse. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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