Have either of you checked to make sure you don't have gpm running. This is a common symptom of X and gpm conflicting. Most people don't even need or want gpm these days. dpkg --purge it if you do have it.
---- Justin Hahn ProfitLogic [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11 Cambridge Center Systems Administrator Cambridge, MA 02142 o: 617-218-1986 www.profitlogic.com m: 617-501-2743 f: 617-218-1901 > -----Original Message----- > From: valentin born [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 5:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Mouse Freezes in XFree 4.1.0.1 > > > > Hi, > > > > I am running Debian Unstable and I am having some problems. > > > > The problem is that after a minute or less, the cursor > freezes. Sometimes > > it > > starts with just acting 'weird & jumpy' and then it > freezes. Other times > > it > > just freezes at without any prior weirdness in movement. > > > > Every package on the system should be the newest available, > according to > > apt-get. > > > > Hope I can find help here, because I would really like to > make the switch > > and start using Linux as my desktop OS and not just at the > server OS. > > > > Blackbox is my Windowmanager, but the problem also occurs under > > Windowmaker > > (although it seems to happens much faster than under Blackbox). > > > > Regards, > > Troels > > > > > Hi Troels, > > unfortunatly i cannot really give you any advice, but i made similar > experience with woody and the > trackball of mine - thought it was because of the ImPS/2 > protocol (but the > trackball should use the > same protocol, right?) - so maybe it's somewhere in the > zaxis-setting or ... > i dont know. - btw i > never had freezes, but _allways_ this "weirdness" of the > cursor hopping > arround, suddenly opening > windowns... > my pseudo"advice" - i got out my old ttyS0! not too cool i > admit - but it > works! > > cu > > kamome > > -- > GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. > http://www.gmx.net >
