On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Stuart Cooper 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! > > > 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. > > Disclaimer: This happened about 12 months ago to > me and I've naturally forgotten the details, > so I'm just using information to the best of my > recollection here.
Same here with RH9 2.4 kernel, updated to 2.6 and all went away. Mind you a RH9 2.4 -> 2.6 kernel upgrade is a little bit painful. vim users will find that gpm is a RPM dependency Darren > > Good luck, > Stuart. > > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. > http://au.movies.yahoo.com > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
