Well I have seemed to pinpointed the problem down to my USB mouse, one thing I forgot to mention is that when the mouse would freeze, X windows was still active and I could use keyboard shortcuts to move around. Also, I failed to mention that I have two mice plugged in, one is ps/2 the other is USB. When the USB mouse fails, the ps/2 mouse still works. I don't think it's a problem with the USB mouse as it's only a few months old. I'm going to try only plugging in one mouse and see if that fixes the problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: "K sPecial" <kspecial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: X freaks and cant' be killed (addition) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:45:07 +0800 > > I also wanted to note that I have rebooted numerous times, each of > which this happens again. The only thing I can think of that has > changed is that I am using that other NIC I was reffering to, as of > today. This weekend I wired cat5 underneath the house in an effort > to not require the desktops to be linked via wifi. I can't think of > any reason why X would interact with a NIC though. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "K sPecial" <kspecial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: X freaks and cant' be killed > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:36:52 +0800 > > > > > Hello, today when I booted linux, I was greeted by an unwelcome > > mouse freeze, looking under my optical mouse, I noticed the laser > > was no longer lit. Having can't do much else, afaik, than to > > restart X, I tried a ctrl+alt+backspace to no avail, after which > > I connected via ssh and attempted to 'pkill -9 X', also to no > > avail. So looking a little further I notice ps shows X as having > > the 'DL' stat: > > > > D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO) > > L has pages locked into memory (for real-time and custom IO) > > > > after googling this a bit, I tried a couple things like killing > > X's parent (xdm), also to no avail (X gained a new parent, init). > > I am using the fglrx LKM for my Radeon 9600, I read that if you > > are able to remove the module of the device that is hanging on IO > > that it will free the process, knowing this I took a chance and > > 'rmmod -f fglrx' also to no avail. What does this leave us with, > > keyboard and mouse? I have had this box open recently and did > > install an old 3C905 boomerang NIC recently also. I am going to > > open er' up later in the day and jiggle things around a bit, of > > course unless someone here tells me it is unnecessary. Other than > > this, i'm completely lost on where to start. Any input > > appreciated. > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org > > This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. > > > > Powered by Outblaze > > > > _______________________________________________ > > XFree86 mailing list > > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org > This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. > > Powered by Outblaze > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 -- _______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
