[ltp] please help: redhat 7.1 on TP 600X
Michael Gratton
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 29 May 2001 13:55:47 +0930
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.
Mike.
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