I've noticed this under both 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 kernels. I'll be in X
happily computing away and all of a sudden my mouse cursor will just start
freaking out. The cursor will not move in the direction that I move my
mouse and it will randomly appear to be recieving button click events from
the mouse (text will be selected, then if I move my mouse around a bit
more it will paste just as if I had hit the middle button, so its not only
the left button). The only way I've found to cure this is to leave X and
restart it. I do not have to reboot.
I also noticed just now when it happened again that IRQ 4 (my serial
mouse) does not even exist in the output of proc interrupts.
Right now (with my mouse working properly) /proc/interrupts looks like
this:
CPU0 CPU1
0: 3237367 3638487 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 27469 31330 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 310980 348929 IO-APIC-edge serial
4: 240993 233798 IO-APIC-edge serial
5: 1903 153 IO-APIC-edge soundblaster
8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
11: 26531 27037 IO-APIC-edge NE2000
13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 88787 39606 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 63453 71822 IO-APIC-edge ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
When I had hit ctrl+alt+f2 to get to a text prompt from within X it looked
just like that except that the line for IRQ 4 was just gone. After I had
killed X and looked at it again, IRQ 4 had magically come back. (IRQ 3 is
my UPS and I had seen this problem before I got it.)
I'm using:
Dual PPro 180's on a Micronics W6-Li
64MB RAM
plain old serial mouse
XFree86 3.3
KDE 1.1
Any ideas what could be causing this? I have no idea if its the kernel,
XFree86, my window manager, sun spots, or just what.
Any insight would be appreciated,
-M@
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Matthew Hixson - CIO
FroZenWave Communications
http://www.frozenwave.com
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