Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:16:20 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 - mouse movement randomly freezes computer Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000113164703.6417A-100000@spectre>
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Hi, I hope someone can help me with this one... I am trying to get a reliable desktop system working, but I keep running into the same problem over and over when I am in X: My mouse cursor will disappear after a random amount of time - 1 minute, 10 minutes, 1 hour... the bottom line is that as soon as this happens, the machine is locked up SOLID. I can't switch to a virtual console, the machine no longer responds to pings, I can't telnet in. The only way to get the machine back is to hit the reset button and do a hard reboot. My system is as follows: FreeBSD 3.4 Stable HP Kayak XA workstation - PII 333 128MB Ram Cirrus Logic GD5465 Video - 4MB Video Ram PS/2 Keyboard PS/2 Microsoft Intellimouse (I have also tried a regular PS/2 mouse and a plain serial mouse - same problem) The system originally had an AMD PCNet PCI adapter that was giving heaps of kernel errors, so I replaced it with a 3Com Etherlink XL PCI. Same problem. I'm pretty sure the problem is with X. I can work indefinitely in console mode, and it was working fine under Win NT. I have also tried several different Linux distributions on this machine with the same outcome - It locks up hard in X. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, - M - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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