On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:15:14PM +0200, Alexandre Touret wrote:
When I leave my mouse without do it anything, she is beeing blocked on
my screen. Then, the only solution I haved found is to restart X :-(
Furthermore, during kdm or gdm startup, when I don t touch the mouse,
the mouse is blocked after gnome startup.
This occured after my last upgrade of xfree
Thanks for helping
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OK I will try tonight. I have an other bug which are in the same way :-(. The
keyboard is also blocking. The only failsafe way is to change the display
manager.
Maybe you're experiencing a problem described in the FAQ:
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#xdmdiffconsole
How do I tell xdm to start the X server on a different virtual console?
People who have customized /etc/inittab to add virtual consoles beyond the six
that is the default Debian configuration often find that the xdm and getty
programs "collide" and often leave the console in an unusable state.
Debian's xdm program ships with a configuration that tells it to start one
local X server on virtual console 7. This works fine with the default Debian
/etc/inittab, but not so well for people who have changed inittab to start a
getty on VC 7.
If you have increased your number of virtual consoles, or otherwise require VC
7 for some purpose, simply edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and change the "vt7"
argument on the ":0" server line to whatever VC is appropriate for your machine
(vt8, vt12, etc.). Note that while the XFree86 manual page says that if the
"vt" argument is not specified, the X server will use the first available
virtual console, it is not a good idea to omit this parameter when starting
local X servers with xdm. This is because even though xdm starts at the very
end of the init sequence, well after the getty processes that manage the
virtual consoles, some machines get through the init sequence so quickly that
getty has not yet claimed its VC's before xdm starts. This leads to exactly the
same kind of console lockup you get as if you deliberately tell getty (via
/etc/inittab) and xdm (via /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers) to use the same virtual
console for their respective tasks.
Does the above sound like a plausible explanation? You may want to check your
/etc/inittab and configuration files for kdm and gdm.