follow up:
I think i have nailed down the problem to be a program i rpmed the other day. i
have reinstalled the system again and left it alone. I am slowly adding the
programs i have downloaded . But"knock on wood it works"
no i a he in times of need we often have to resort to windows.
Steven
Thanks for the help guys & or gals
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 21:27:03 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, G_REEPER wrote:
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> >> this is aproblem that has just started in the last few days. I can be in kde,
> >> gnome, or window maker , it doesn't matter. After a short time it's like the
> >> mouse freaks out the panel at the bottom" that is where mine is" slides off
> >> screen, and all kinds of popup menus start appearing. It wil lnot let me move my
> >> mouse to the center of the screen. Instead it just jumps off of one side to the
> >> other. I haven't changed any settings, in either Xconfig, or with the mouse.
> >> Sometimes the only way out is to reset the system. Everything works fine in
> >> Windows so I'm a little lost here. I'm using Mandrake 6.1.
> >> Thanks for any help.
> >> Steven
> >>
> >What kind of mouse do you have and what kind of mouse did you tell
> >Linux you're using? You may need to rerun mouseconfig as root.
>
> Sounds more like she has an irq conflict. Sounds like every thing
> works fine for the mouse until whatever else it is trys to take the
> irq or address and boom ......crazy mouse....
> Something else is trying to use the same irq or address as the mouse.
>
> Dennis
>
> > John
