Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: X-Windows | | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:26:04 +0200 | | From | Herbert Wengatz <> |
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+> > Lately, while in X I have been having keyboard and mouse lockups. The +> > mouse cursor moves, but none of the clicks do anything. I can shut the +> > system down from another machine, but I can't get my machine to do +> > anything. So far it's only happened while running Netscape 2.01, but +> > there was a time, (somewhere between 1.3.85 - 1.3.88) where Netscape +> > couldn't have worked any better. I don't want to put all the blame on the +> > kernel, but just wanted to know if anyone else is having this problem. +> > The system doesn't give any strange messages either. Anybody have an idea +> > why this is happening? +> +> i have a similar symptom; i have a logitech mouseman and i believe +> it is a bug in X' handling of the mouseman protocol (but i have no +> tests to base this theory on :-) +> +> if i press the middle mouse button it unfreezes, which is an ok +> workaround for me. but the first couple of times it happened i +> was really worried. +> There's for sure somewhere a bug. Either in the X11-mouse-driver, or in the Linux-mouse-driver (I don't know, is it the same ? Is X just using the calls Linux offers ?). I swapped some weeks ago my mainboard to a faster one. The result was, that X11 wouldn't fire up any more. I had a very hard hang! After two weeks of search, I simply exchanged my good ole Logitech mouse with an "El Cheapo"-MS-compatible mouse -> suddenly X11 did run again!!!! (ONLY with the MS-Mouse!) I had some mailexchanges with Harald Koenig in Tuebingen (Hallo, Harald! Nochmals vielen Dank fuer deine Hilfe!!!! :-) ), but I must admit I lost contact. The bug still is not fixed as far as I know. And I currently (and for the next months, too) I can't help search, since I make a move in June. (Sorry, Harald!) I assume there's some new serial chip on the newer mainboards, which is not completely compatible, or so. - Just because, before I switched the mainboards, everything was fine.
Regards,
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