GPM was set to repeat as raw, X was reading from gpmdata (which is unnecessary in linux 2.6, I know, but I inherited the setup from 2.4). In short, 2.4 showed no detectable problems, but in 2.6 something weird happened. I don't know what's the issue here, but I would want to warn people using 2.6 kernel and gpmdata repeat to remove gpm as the middleman. The symptoms in my case were prolonged periods (up to 10 seconds) during which mouse in X wouldn't move because apparently gpm didn't get time or wasn't run to tell X about updates in mouse position. This problem surfaced only during heavy IDE-disk load, and I thought for weeks the problem was in the kernel. For all I know, maybe it is. Just wanted to post an alert about this problem, so someone else who sees the issue might hit this post and get a clue. Antti _______________________________________________ gpm mailing list gpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linux.it/listinfo/gpm