> On 02-Jul-2002 Eric Christian Carlsen wrote:
> > Blackbox crashes every month or so on a workspace change with the wheel
> > mouse patch. This is blackbox 0.62.1 and it just happened to me
> > yesterday (with a signal 11). I'm pretty sure it's not hardware related
> > although that's usually what signal 11's are. Also, I used to have a
> > very simple program that someone on this list posted to put in for the
> > last line of the .xinitrc file to prevent crashes from crashing X. It
> > was a little program called stall and basically just a while loop I
> > think. I'd like to get that again.
> >
> > Although I think you're not taking feature requests a 'change workspace
> > with wheel mouse' integrated into the code would be nice. Thanks for a
> > great window manager.
> >
>
> The recent alpha series attacked this type of workspace crash directly. Check
> the patch/feature request trackers, someone may have ported the wheel mouse
> patch to 0.65.0 beta1.
>
> If you want to see the bug grab 'dance' from the test_code module. It
> does lots of rapid workspace changing. Crashed blackbox in about 20 seconds.
> Now it doesn't and generates enough X events to slow the system to a dead slug.
I get crashes every time I use an optical wheel mouse made for P/S2 from Micro
Innovations. I'm using the stock P/S2 interface with X, running RH 7.3 &
kernel 2.4.18. My stock balled P/S2 Belkin 3button mouse works fine.
Keven
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