On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 10:46, 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-) > > > > What do you mean by "crash" ? It stops responding ? You can get > > it back after killing & relaunching it or not ? Could be a gpm > > configuration problem... > > GPM is not installed, as we really only ever use X and it gave me grief a long > time ago on intel platforms, so I tend to do without it. Should I be running > GPM and feeding the XServer from that? I think I understand how that works, > but > it seemed a bit complicated to me.
Absolutely, while that's another possible workaround, I suspect there should be a better one. > The mouse locks up, but the keyboard is fine. KDE exits cleanly, it seems. > When kdm comes back, I can tab down to Shutdown, and select reboot using the > keyboard, but the mouse is frozen (pointer in the middle of the screen); it's > just that it isn't the Unix way to reboot after each session 8-) Of course not, doesn't kdm also have an option to restart the X server though? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
