On Tuesday 20 August 2002 05:54 am, Richard Tango-Lowy wrote:
> Right after I boot, login, and gnome starts, my mouse pointer freezes in
> the center of the screen. Switching to another console (ctr-alt-F1) and
> back unfreezes it. Once it unfreezes, it works properly, even when I log
> out and back in.
>
> Rich
I get something similar and have reported is since mandrake 8.0 or so. It's
real annoying but my system won't run for more than a day or two without
completely locking up. Usually my mouse continues to work but the GUI doesn't
refresh properly. Using the ctrl-alt-f1 will work for a while but after a
time the system requires using the power button to restart it.
Now I've watched it long enough to know it's not my video card( I've used
voodoo3 3000, ati rage 64(multiple), voodoo 4 4000. It's not my motherboard (
Used abit slota athlon, currently using tyan socketa with duron) It's not
sound card(used built in, creative labs, and now I'm running a Hercules game
fortisimo II). I've used various cdroms and dvd so it is not that. The only
thing the same is my logitech mouse and my hard drive.
My bet is the mouse drivers are not doing the right thing. I've used two
different logitech mice over this time but they are the same more or less and
it happens more if I use them as usb. They both have the wheel and seem to
exhibit this problem when reading anything and using the wheel to scroll up
and down the page. One last thing It gets worse the longer the system is on.
I'm guessing memory leak in the wheel mouse drivers. I really don't know
though. It would be nice if this was fixed as it's the only thing that really
annoys me about mandrake. The rest of the stuff can be dealt with but system
locking is not good.
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