Bug 53926
| Summary: | Intellimouse Explorer Hardlock | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Josh Olson <josolson> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-07-30 03:51:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Josh Olson
2001-09-21 18:57:50 UTC
There are Intellimouse mice that have a hardware bug and you might have one of them. I don't recall what the solution is off the top of my head, so you might want to try xpert mailing list, or searching their archives. Also, it is critical that you choose the correct mouse driver for your mouse, regardless of which mouse you have. I recommend disabling gpm console mouse driver temporarily, and trying the drivers "Intellimouse", "ps/2", and others until the proper driver is found. For X mouse manual page, listing avail drivers: man -a mouse BTW, this bug was filed against RHL 4.2, I've reassigned it to 7.1 assuming you mistakenly clicked on 4.2. After tweaking your settings, does the mouse now work properly? Ok I've changed the driver to Intellimouse ps/2 but i still get hardlocks, I'm still searching at xfree86 but I have not come up with much yet. I'm sorry I mistakenly clicked 4.2 i meant 7.1, I'm still trying a few different mouse drivers, I'm hoping this works. ok i'm using the intellimouse driver right now, here is a better analysis of what happens, sometimes, when xloads the mouse sensitity seems to be very low, and my mouse moves very slowly. after about 5-10 minutes and it hardlocks the entire box. A reboot, fixes the problem, and my mouse sensitivity is back to normal, it will run good on this and not lock x, but after a reboot or two, and the slowness is back, and it will hardlock for sure. analysis: sudden slow mouse sensitivity = hardlocked computer; normal sensitivity works fine, until reboot or two, then slow mouse comes back and there is hardlock. i have talked to a few people about this, and they are having same problem I'm having difficulty believing the mouse or mouse driver is causing hardlocks of your machine. More likely some other problem is occuring on the machine, possibly video driver bugs, DRI bugs, or something else, which is bogging the machine down, killing mouse interactivity, and eventually locking the box, and you are misinterpreting it as being a mouse problem. Please attach your X server log, and config file. Be sure you are running the latest XFree86 erratum for Red Hat Linux 7.1. If you are using a newer distro release and still having the problem, please update the distro release number of the bug report if it is still a relevant issue for you. Once I've got your logs, I can investigate the problem better. Please also attach /var/log/messages from after a crash if you can. Due to lack of response for requested information, I am closing this bug NOTABUG as I can't troubleshoot something without receiving requested data in a reasonable timeframe. You're the only person to report such a problem, and if it were a real software issue, then most likely I'd be quite inundated with bug reports for this. I'm writing it off as a hardware problem, or a configuration issue you've worked around. |