Are you overclocking? While I've never tried it, I've heard reports
that you can have unexpected, strangeness happen with overclocked
systems. If you are overclocking, as an experiment, try setting the
system back to it's RATED speed (of the CPUs.) If that fixes it, you
know what the problem is.
John
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Chris Thompson wrote:
> Please help! I've scanned FAQs and mailing lists for hours trying to
> track down the solution to my problem.
>
> Problem:
> * KDE seems to forget that I have a keyboard attached every so often,
> waking up later. In addition, KDE does not transfer focus properly a lot
> of the time. I believe I also have mouse-click problems (i.e. mouse
> clicks are sometimes not registered)
> * Gnome always transfers focus correctly but often does not register mouse
> clicks. In addition, I *think* the keyboard occasionally goes to sleep,
> waking up later. In addition, logging off from Gnome, the fade-to-grey
> takes a long time.
>
> My system:
> ABIT-BP6 motherboard. I have recompiled the kernel tens of times and
> never once had a problem. In addition, my system never OOPS and seems
> generally 100% stable. I have 128 megs of RAM and a TNT2 video card. I
> have tried Debian Linux (2.2 and 2.1) and Storm Linux 2000 (based on
> Debian 2.1). I have tried kernels 2.2.14, 2.2.13, 2.3.49, and 2.0.38.
> 2.0.38 is *much* better than the others but still exhibits mouse-click
> problems. I use XFree86 3.3.5, I think, though perhaps .4 or .6. My
> kernel is compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3.
>
> I have disabled APM and enabled the real time clock.
>
> I have tried all of these kernels with SMP turned off (everything else
> exactly in tact) and this resolves all my problems.
>
> If you want any more information on my system, please let me know. If you
> have anything I can try, I'd be more than happy to. If you can direct me
> anywhere, that would be cool. Or if this is a known-bug in Linux that
> someone is working on, cool. I unfortunately do not know enough about SMP
> or kernel programming to try to resolve this on my own.
>
> Thanks. :)
>
>
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