RE: [aclug-L] Mouse problem

["John Alexander" <john.alexander@xxxxxxx>]

New diagnostic software: Winblows '95!!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Greg House
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 11:11 PM
> To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Mouse problem
>
>
> 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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