Re: [aclug-L] Mouse problem

["Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Never mind.  It appears that the problem was a bad mouse.

I ended up rebooting into Windoze and the mouse did exactly the same thing
there.  I swapped it with another one and it worked perfectly.

Sorry for the false alarm and thanks anyway,
Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ACLUG-list <ACLUG-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 5:57 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Mouse problem


>Hi everyone,
>
>I have a strange problem.  I have a Red Hat (5.1) system that I've been
>setting up for a friend.  I thought I was about ready to ship it to him,
but
>I decided to install gnome first.
>
>I installed that, but haven't set it up to run yet.  When I started X to
>check the html instructions for gnome, I experienced a strange problem with
>the mouse.  When you start X, you can move the mouse maybe halfway across
>the screen and then it will stop.  At that point, I notice a disk access
and
>the mouse won't move again.  I'm having to shut down the X server with
>Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get out.  The rest of the system seems ok.  The mouse
>behavior is similar under gpm at the command line.
>
>I don't know how this happened, since I've been using this X setup (with
>fvwm95) for 2-3 weeks now.  The only thing I can think is that it has
>something to do with the installation of gnome.  I had to clean up the disk
>because it was out of space and I removed a few rpms (which didn't have
>dependancies on them) and deleted stuff from the /tmp directory.  These
>should have been pretty innoculous.
>
>Got any ideas what my problem is?
>
>Thanks,
>Greg
>
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