* Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus:
>
> I think I get something similiar I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Alt-F7 and it
> starts to work again..
Erm, what are these keyboard shortcuts supposed to do?
They're not listed under the standard gnome defaults...
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Peter Hardy wrote:
>
> > 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..)
erm, nope - I'm a newbie still...
some questions:
- what is gpm? (I got the script from someone else)
- how do I go about disabling it?
Cheers and thanks,
Taryn
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