On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 14:11, Taryn East wrote: > Ok, so at work we're running red hat (shrike), and I have a fairly > standard, cheapo mouse - which is probably half my trouble... > > but the thing keeps dieing! *snip* > Mouse driver being used: > generic PS/2 wheel mouse > > "Green Mile" script: > su -c "/etc/init.d/gpm restart"
Have you tried rejigging X to use its own PS/2 mouse driver and disabling gpm altogether? It just sounds like gpm is having problems, and I tend not to trust it too much anyway (bad experiences trying to use gpm with USB mice..) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
