Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:23:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chris Salinardi <> | Subject | Re: X-Windows |
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On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Jeffrey Ebert wrote:
> Ian Donaldson wrote: > > > > > Lately, while in X I have been having keyboard and mouse lockups. The > > > mouse cursor moves, but none of the clicks do anything. I can shut the > > > system down from another machine, but I can't get my machine to do > > > anything. So far it's only happened while running Netscape 2.01, but > > > there was a time, (somewhere between 1.3.85 - 1.3.88) where Netscape > > > couldn't have worked any better. I don't want to put all the blame on the > > > kernel, but just wanted to know if anyone else is having this problem. > > > The system doesn't give any strange messages either. Anybody have an idea > > > why this is happening? > > > So, I dont think its a Linux problem. > > > > Ian > > I disagree in this case. Like the original poster (squire), I didn't begin to > see problems until 1.3.89. I am running 1.3.93 now and I have problems as > well. > > When I get a lockup, it applies to all input, keyboard, mouse movement and > clicks. I shutdown X from a remote machine and everything returns to normal. > While Netscape 2.01 may be involved in the problem, I have also caused it by > switching from a text VC to the X VC while other X apps are running. > > I have not been able to find any error messages in any of my logs. Sorry. :( > > -- > Jeff Ebert > jebert@earthlink.net > ho-hum
Yeah, for a while I thought it was Netscape, but it happened in XView too. It might just be a small kernel bug. I have a Microsoft mouse, so I know it isn't a mouse problem. I'm thinking of testing some of the older kernels to see if it goes away.
Chris Salinardi csalin01@kepler.poly.edu
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