On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 03:58, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Nick Bailey wrote: > > >Thridly (out of two 8-): the mouse crashes when exiting KDE. > >I've not seen this in a bug report. It's a USB one and works > >fine until you exit KDE. The remapping of F11 and F12 as the > >two mouse buttons works fine too (just left the stuff in from > >Potato). I know there's a way to go yet before Woody gets > >release, but I wanted to be ready 8-) > > > This is a known problem with X 4.1.0, on both PPC and ARM > (little-endian, but unsigned char and framebuffer like PPC). Seems to > happen with kdm and gdm (the GNOME version), and I've noticed that if I > log in and log out real fast, it's fine.
Haven't seen it with gdm, does it only happen with the fbdev driver? > For more detail, see http://bugs.debian.org/113022 but the best > workaround I know of is to ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to the console, then > alt-F7 back to X, and *dm will crash and restart itself with the mouse > working. It's some funny state X gets into which makes this crash > happen, and it doesn't happen otherwise, but it's convenient to make > this workaround work. At least gdm also offers an option to always restart the X server on sesion exit, which might avoid the problem. > Maybe this information will help guide someone to a fix. :-) Unfortunately, it doesn't ring a bell beyond something obviously doesn't get properly reset when starting the new server generation. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
