On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 07:22:38AM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Its taken me several weeks to get a functional RedHat 6.0 running, on
> this laptop. Finally figured out what is causing full freeze at run
> level 3 login prompt.
>
> Something in 6.0 gpm (console mouse services) is causing a full freeze
> at run level 3 login prompt. I mean a freeze where no activity at all
> is possible. No CTRL+ALT+DEL, no ALT+[F1,F2 etc] and no characters
> appear when typed. Even the capslock light doesn't activate when
> pressing capslock. Only way to leave this prompt is with a full hard
> reboot at the switch.
If you're connected to a network, try to ping or telnetting your laptop.
Maybe only the console hangs.
> Since I bought the "Official Redhat" boxed set, I was able to get
> phone support from redhat. After being advised to (and doing) a few
> reinstalls with different params, they just sent me to "Bugzilla" to
> file a bug report.
It is a known problem that there are sometimes problems if more than one
driver (i.e. gpm and X) are sharing one PS/2 mouse!
>
> Rather than list the errors maybe someone can tell me.
> 1) How to eliminate the gpm freeze.
Is you ps2 driver is in kernel or as modul? Try both.
Maybe there is a timing problem?! Try a 'sleep 1' befor starting gpm.
Check
http://www.suse.de/sdb/en/html/gpm_xdm.html
http://www.suse.de/sdb/de/html/twomice.html (In german only)
to start only one driver for ps2 (gpm ans X, important).
> 2) How to arrange things so that a user can call `/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm
> start' through a script or .bashrc.
Try 'sudo' to let a normal user start a script with root-permissions.
P.S. I have _sometimes_ (once a week) a total freeze too (internal ps2...)
I tried an older gpm-version but no success. It seems to be the ps2 driver
in 2.2.* ?!
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