Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
evert wrote:Hallo Steef,Bij het zoeken naar mijn probleem : Linux Sarge, Frozen mouse kwam ik jouw vraag /antwoord tegen. Ik ontmoet momenteel na een Debian sarge installatie hetzelfde probleem. Wat mij bevreemd is dat ik niet ergens een afdoende oplossing of antwoord op het probleem vind. Trial and error is niet mijn favoriete bezigheid omdat ik graag wil begrijpen hoe zo n fout ontstaat. Vandaar mijn vraag aan jou "Is het probleem intussen door jou opgelost , waar zat /zit het probleem In de kernel, XFree86 of elders?Met dank voor de te nemen moeite evert.aukes aukes88@zonnet.nlEvert, This is an English list. Translation:In researching my problem: Linux Sarge, frozen mouse, I encountered your query/answer.At the moment I have the same problem after a Debian Sarge installation. What seems strange is that I cannot find a good answer to the problem.Trial and error are not my favorite occupation because I like to understand where the error originates.Hence my question: Has the problem been solved by you, where was/is the problem, in the kernel, X, or elsewhere.H
to evert and hugo first: i apologize for my late answer. i have been somewhat busy.thanx *hugo* for your translation. your name suggested already some knowledge of my native tongue. if necessary: i'll answer evert offline in Dutch if he asks me to. S.
to *evert*:i still do not understand [completely] the cause of this problem. just like you i like *to understand* what i am doing. i came to the conclusion that it a could be 'hardware-problem', allthough i do not have conclusive evidence for this.
in this case i was forced, some time ago, to work by trial and error, out of a *ceteris paribus* situation. my conclusions: it is not X. when i changed my sarge-kernel from 2.4.x to 2.6.x the problem disappeared immediately. i came on base of circumstantial evidence tot my conclusion that this nasty behavior of my (ImPS)-mouse is a hardware-problem because there were only very few complaints about a frozen mouse. the only other case i remember is a frozen mouse on a machine of a danish girl(?).
a couple of days ago i installed sarge (just to go up to sid; for fun) on another hd with the standard 2.4.x kernel on the same machine. and guess: the same problem!!! when i got rid of the standard kernel, and installed a 2.4.x kernel for an amd-athlon processor (k7, standard too), all problems were gone. i could reboot normally. (if i can spare some time i gonna build my own kernel to see if that kernel works, whether not).
well: i hope this little story is of *some* help. steefso i guess it could be rewarding to sum up the hardware of our machines and see if their is a possibly identical critical point.