Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-17 Thread Mick Ab
Thanks Brad for your contribution. I don't think anything can be done with the keyboard when the freeze occurs. On 15:41, Wed, 15 Jun 2022 Brad Rogers On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:15:35 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > Hello Joe, > > >Also try Ctrl-Alt-F3 > >to see if a console is reachable as X might have pro

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-17 Thread Joe
On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:23:53 +0100 Mick Ab wrote: > Thanks very much, David, for your help. > > Unfortunately it is not possible to log in to the PC from elsewhere. > > As to most of your other points, they will have to wait for another > similar freeze. > > I was not able to check logs becaus

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-17 Thread Mick Ab
Thanks very much, David, for your help. Unfortunately it is not possible to log in to the PC from elsewhere. As to most of your other points, they will have to wait for another similar freeze. I was not able to check logs because, subsequent to the freezing, the PC had to be rebooted due to a ma

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-16 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-15 09:21, Mick Ab wrote: I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have been a few occasions when the PC has failed to be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears to be off and on one oc

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 09:21:58 (+0100), Mick Ab wrote: > I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have been > a few occasions when the PC has failed to > be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and > keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:20:01 +0200 Joe wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:21:58 +0100 > Mick Ab wrote: > >> I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently >> there have been a few occasions when the PC has failed to >> be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. >> The mouse

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2022, 16:40:37 CEST schrieb Brad Rogers: This behaviour appears from time to time here, too. It is randomly, but it looks like it has something to do with either firefox or the graphics driver. IMO it looks like X (or something related to the graphics card or X), is hanging

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:15:35 +0100 Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >Also try Ctrl-Alt-F3 >to see if a console is reachable as X might have problems. Unlikely: OP reported keyboard is frozen, too. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is never immediately apparent" / _)rad

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread Joe
On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:21:58 +0100 Mick Ab wrote: > I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have > been a few occasions when the PC has failed to > be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and > keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears to

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, June 15, 2022 06:45:45 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 4:22 AM Mick Ab > > wrote: > > I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have > > been a few occasions when the PC has failed to > > be woken up in the morning after being left ov

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread mick crane
On 2022-06-15 09:21, Mick Ab wrote: I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have been a few occasions when the PC has failed to be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears to be off and on one oc

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 4:22 AM Mick Ab wrote: > I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have been > a few occasions when the PC has failed to > be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and > keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears to be

Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread Mick Ab
I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have been a few occasions when the PC has failed to be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears to be off and on one occasion it was on. A hard reboot has be

Re: frozen mouse pointer in Lxde in Squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread peasthope
* Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:49:28 -0800 I wrote, > ... Squeeze ... > Consequently, the Lxde screen appears OK except that the > mouse pointer is immobile. This appears pertinent, pe...@joule:/var/log$ cat /var/log/X*old | grep "(EE) MGA" (EE) MGA(0): [drm] Failed to initialize DMA! (-2) a

frozen mouse pointer in Lxde in Squeeze

2010-02-08 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Yesterday afternoon I updated Squeeze on the home machine. Consequently, the Lxde screen appears OK except that the mouse pointer is immobile. Has anyone solved this? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ http://carnot.yi.org/ = http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/

Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X

2005-10-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 07 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > >>Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> > >>>My computer crashed recently so I built a new one (AMD Sempron, ASRock > >>>K8Upgrade-1689 m/b) and installed the original HDs. Most things work as >

Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X

2005-10-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > My computer crashed recently so I built a new one (AMD Sempron, ASRock > > K8Upgrade-1689 m/b) and installed the original HDs. Most things work as > > expected (not USB so far) but the most urgent problem is that the mouse > > poin

Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X -GOT ROUND

2005-10-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Oct 2005, Jan T. Kim wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 08:33:04AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > > > Section "InputDevice" > > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > > Driver "mouse" > > > Option "CorePointer" > > > Option "Device""/dev

Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X

2005-10-07 Thread Jan T. Kim
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 08:33:04AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "CorePointer" > > Option "Device""/dev/ttyS0" > > Option "Proto

RE: Frozen mouse pointer in X

2005-10-07 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" Option "Protocol""Microsoft" Option "Emulate3Buttons"

Frozen mouse pointer in X

2005-10-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
My computer crashed recently so I built a new one (AMD Sempron, ASRock K8Upgrade-1689 m/b) and installed the original HDs. Most things work as expected (not USB so far) but the most urgent problem is that the mouse pointer is frozen in the middle of the screen in X. This is a MS 2-button serial m

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard in new Woody installation

2003-11-27 Thread Kent West
apt-get install emacs20 and fvwm2. I can rewrite xinitrc to include "exec fvwm2". BUT: when I reboot, I get either kdm or gnome AND THE SAME DRATTED FROZEN MOUSE AND KEYBOARD, and now can't even get a console session, or to try to fix things with the rescue disk, since the machine

Frozen mouse and keyboard in new Woody installation

2003-11-26 Thread John
install emacs20 and fvwm2. I can rewrite xinitrc to include "exec fvwm2". BUT: when I reboot, I get either kdm or gnome AND THE SAME DRATTED FROZEN MOUSE AND KEYBOARD, and now can't even get a console session, or to try to fix things with the rescue disk, since the machine goes rig

Re: Frozen Mouse

1998-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why not just add -R to the gpm configuration and use /dev/gpmdata and > > MouseSystems in XF86Config; then you can have both. > > Doesn't the gpm man page says that what you are suggesting doesn't apply to > serial mice ? If that's the way you u

Re: Frozen Mouse

1998-02-20 Thread shaul
> Why not just add -R to the gpm configuration and use /dev/gpmdata and > MouseSystems in XF86Config; then you can have both. Doesn't the gpm man page says that what you are suggesting doesn't apply to serial mice ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

RE: Frozen Mouse

1998-02-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Kristian Strickland wrote: > Are you running gpm? When I first installed debian, I installed gpm > because it's amazingly handy. However I soon found that gpm and X on my > machine didn't mesh. Solution? Since I only use the console for upgrades, I > removed gpm. I

RE: Frozen Mouse

1998-02-19 Thread Kristian Strickland
> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:47:48 -0800 (PST) > From: Stuart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Frozen mouse in X-Windows > > Hi. I have a(nother) problem. As implied by the subject line, my mouse > is completely frozen in X-Windows,

Frozen mouse in X-Windows

1998-02-18 Thread Stuart Smith
Hi. I have a(nother) problem. As implied by the subject line, my mouse is completely frozen in X-Windows, rendering it very close to useless... Also, though less major, I can't work out how to set permisions for my non-root access. It would be nice to be able to dial out to PPP and to play games t