> 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! > stops dead, will not accept any more input. > I have a script which stops and starts the mouse up > again which I run > each time this happens (I've become very familiar > with my keyboard > shortcuts) but this is annoying and I am plagued by > the "I shouldn't > have to do this" feeling. > Can anyone help me figure out what is actually going > wrong so that it > doesn't happen anymore? I think there's a known issue with gpm in some of the Redhat releases (8.0 and 9.0 from memory). The symptoms are exactly as you describe. One workaround, which sounds counterintuitive, is not to start gpm at all in your system startup. gpm I think only does mouse stuff in text mode init 3 style things, and isn't required under X. You can try disabling gpm completely from your system startup and see how things go from there.
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