Michel D�nzer wrote: >On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 03:58, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > >>Nick Bailey wrote: >> >>>Thridly (out of two 8-): the mouse crashes when exiting KDE. >>>I've not seen this in a bug report. It's a USB one and works >>>fine until you exit KDE. The remapping of F11 and F12 as the >>>two mouse buttons works fine too (just left the stuff in from >>>Potato). I know there's a way to go yet before Woody gets >>>release, but I wanted to be ready 8-) >>> >>This is a known problem with X 4.1.0, on both PPC and ARM >>(little-endian, but unsigned char and framebuffer like PPC). Seems to >>happen with kdm and gdm (the GNOME version), and I've noticed that if I >>log in and log out real fast, it's fine. >> >Haven't seen it with gdm, does it only happen with the fbdev driver? > Must be an fbdev driver thing then.
>>For more detail, see http://bugs.debian.org/113022 but the best >>workaround I know of is to ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to the console, then >>alt-F7 back to X, and *dm will crash and restart itself with the mouse >>working. It's some funny state X gets into which makes this crash >>happen, and it doesn't happen otherwise, but it's convenient to make >>this workaround work. >> >At least gdm also offers an option to always restart the X server on >sesion exit, which might avoid the problem. > Cool. Another note to add to my "debconfize gdm" wishlist bug #112066. :-) >>Maybe this information will help guide someone to a fix. :-) >> >Unfortunately, it doesn't ring a bell beyond something obviously doesn't >get properly reset when starting the new server generation. > Okay. Thanks for considering it. Zeen, -- -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! <http://lyre.mit.edu/%7Epowell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
