From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 14:15:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E2714EFD for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:15:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre (mpoulin@cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.90.129]) by honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA06435 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:16:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:16:20 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin X-Sender: mpoulin@spectre To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XFree86 - mouse movement randomly freezes computer Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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