On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 16:31, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 16:04, Gary Walsh wrote:
> > I installed RC1 on my Athlon system and am having a critical problem
> > with X hanging solidly. It seems to happen when I am dragging a
> > vertical scrollbar down a long list. It has mostly happened when I was
> > running rpmdrake, but happened once with alsaplayer, so it doesn't seem
> > to be application specific. X locks up completely and I have no
> > keyboard access. CNTL-ALT-BS doesn't work and I can't change consoles.
> > This happens in both Gnome and KDE. I am, however, able to SSH in from
> > my laptop and run any programs as well as shutdown and reboot.
> >
> > --
> > Gary Walsh Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://homepages.dsl.ca/~gwalsh/
> >
> >
> >
>
> I've been complaining about this for about 3 weeks now. it dates back
> further than rc1.i also have to shut off the screensaver and apci or
> else they turn on all the time randomely. This happens with my voodoo3
> 3000 and my radeon 8500. It happens in gnome kde2 and kde3. I've been
> trying to troubleshoot everything so as not to sound to wierd when I
> submit my report. The only real thing of info that I got was that whe
> nthe xscreensaver turned on randomely every 4 or 5 seconds even when I
> was using the keyboard and mouse it printed this error at the top of the
> screen:
>
> xscreensaver 13:31:31 couldn't grab pointer (already grabbed)
>
> I hope you mandrake guys can use this as I sure whould hate to try to
> use this system this way.
>
> As for the freezing it hapens on all kinds of apps. I have to shut it
> down by the power button every 30minutes to 4 hours or so. It's real
> random about locking up. the only thing different is that my home
> directory has been converted to xfs. Everything is the same as it always
> has been. But xfs shouldn't be causing these kinds of problems.
I can only think of one other thing tht may be causing this. I'm using
my mouse as usb.
Is anyone even working on this it whould be nice to know? I mean not to
many people have reported it but it still is anoying.
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