Michael O'Keefe wrote: > Tyrion wrote: >> Sorry to say it, but your system must really suck, I use flash all the >> time and have never had it freeze X. >> >> Why, or how would it do this? I would understand crashing firefox, but >> the whole system? > > It can do a global grab of the pointer, and never give it back to the > server. > > X11 is then hosed
I have what I think is a hardware problem with my mobo that freezes the mouse occasionally. It might actually be a software problem or maybe specific to my hardware -- I really couldn't say, Anyway, the symptom is that the mouse dies (pointer still visible, but frozen). I've got a little dance that fixes the problem for me. It works well enough that I haven't worried about the root cause of the problem. I do ctrl-alt-f1 and login to the virtual console as root, and then do rmmod uhci_hcd and modprobe uhci_hcd, and all is fixed. Maybe this would work in some cases that others think their X is hosed. In my case, a dmesg line referring to some failure in uhci_hcd is what led me to try this recovery. If you don't see any such message at the end of your dmesg output, I suppose it's unlikely to work for you. >.. Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
