Bug 4672
Summary: | mouse problem after switching between text and graphic display screens | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Vlado Potisk <reg.bugs> |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2000-09-09 09:32:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Vlado Potisk
1999-08-23 17:57:01 UTC
I was having the *exact* same problem myself! The problem appears solved with the forthcoming XFree86 3.3.5 errata release. If it is not solved for you after you obtain and upgrade to the 3.3.5 errata, please re-open this bug. I do reopen this bug as instructed. Nothing changed after upgrading to XFree 3.3.5 from Updates or from RawHide. this was fixed by the XFree86 3.3.5 errata release. Neither 3.3.5-errata nor 3.3.6 helped me. I considered this bug quite annoying and found finally a workaround. I realized that X server closes and reopens the serial port /dev/mouse when doing VT switching. In order to prevent resets of this port I run a process which keeps it open (e.g. sleep 100000 > /dev/mouse). Since then I have no problems. Note: I am not using gpm daemon. I had similar problems and I found the reason: This is a conflict between GPM and X - GPM doesn't give back the control over the mouse. Workaround: Before getting back to X kill GPM using 'gpm -k' command. You may want to remove GPM from inittab, start it manually when you need it and kill it when going back to X. Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/openshift-docs https://github.com/openshift/openshift-docs/commit/2afa4dc9980ad65edf0493aa902c3152384fcef8 Changed recycle policies to reclaim policies, fixed issue 4672 https://github.com/openshift/openshift-docs/commit/bb29d6deee30bba0d97fd13fe470e1c8ec778d45 Merge pull request #4760 from gaurav-nelson/ForIssue4672 Changed recycle policies to reclaim policies, fixed issue 4672 |