In the middle of a session the mouse became unresponsive, CPU went to 100%, and eventually the cursor disappeared completely. Since then (across system reboots) the pattern seems to be that I can get it to move a little bit at first (in the kdm greeter), and then it stops working, eventually vanishing. Ordinarily I'd think this was a sign of a hardware problem, but it works under Win 98 on the same machine (though there are some hints that it's a bit erratic even there). mdetect produces no output. Originally it was set to use gpm, but I've tried it without. No luck. Can anyone suggest any steps to diagnose or solve the problem? Thanks. Ross Boylan Some background info on the system: XFree86 4.3.0 on Debian GNU/Linux with 2.4.27 kernel, using devfs. 3 button ps/2 Belkin F8E813-PS2 mouse. I upgraded many of the X packages a couple of days before this happened--but the problems definitely did not start right after that. Here are some current excerpts from my files -------------- gpm.conf -------------------- device=/dev/misc/psaux # tried /dev/psaux earlier; it's a symlink responsiveness=15 repeat_type=ms3 type=ps2 append='' sample_rate= ---------------------------------------------- ---------- XF86Config-4 -------------------- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata" Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection # I tried this alternate too Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Ross Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "Intellimouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
