[ltp] Freezes SuSE 7.1/7.2 and TP T 21

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

marcus.giles@deltagold.com.au wrote:

>
>
>My A22m has the ATI Rage mobility -m AGP 8 meg card, so in theory the
>"savage" bug doesn't affect it.
>But I still get moments when my mouse will be able to move around but not
>click on anything (tab'ing, alt-tab'ing and alt-F4'ing don't work either).
>On top of that the Icons on the desktop will highlight when the mouse
>moves over them, but the buttons on the task bar don't react in the same
>way.
>The only fix that I've found is crt-alt-backspace, and restart the
>Xserver.
>I'm not fluent enough with Linux to know where I should be looking for
>error logs or other such, so If you have any ideas I would be grateful.
>The system is SuSE 7.2 with all the latest updates. (through the
>auto-update feature)
>It has also done it in the middle of a bzflag game as well, mouse movement
>but no click ability...
>Marcus
>
sounds to me like you have a mouse button stuck down...
(maybe not physically but "logically")
try clicking a lot to see if that restores mouse function

brad



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