[ltp] please help: redhat 7.1 on TP 600X

[Na-Rae Han]

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Michael Gratton wrote:

> 
> 
> Na-Rae Han wrote:
> 
> > 
> > the mouse pointer freezes: it moves around all right, but it just
> > doesn't work (relogin helps in this case)
> > or the keyboard or even the entire system hangs, so only powering off is
> > the only way out
>  
> 
> 
> You may want to check to see of you are running gpm, the text-console 
> mouse driver. If you are, make sure X uses /dev/gpmdata as it's mouse 
> device. If you are running gpm, and you're not using /dev/gpmdata, 
> you'll see exactly the behaviour you describe.

>From my original message: 
"...I also tried disabling pgm, but still having the same problem ..."

Oops, I meant gpm. It was my first guess... I went ahead and disabled it,
so this shouldn't be the cause of the problem. I did it through the
control panel of KDE -> run level controller or something. I disabled it
on every level. Should I be doing it some other way?

Na-Rae


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