>crash or freeze?
Dunno yet, will only be able to check on this today in the evening. Can't
network this machine from here.
>What type of mouse do you have, BTW?
Logitech WheelMouse (optical), USB plug, connected through USB-->PS2
adapter to the PS2 port.
Works great under SuSE default kernel in X, and in Windoze.
> These are the exact symptoms of not compiling ps2 mouse support. Is
> there psaux in your /proc/misc file?
yes. it says :
1 psaux
184 microcode
btw, It's compiled in, not as a module.
but it definitely behaves like it doesn't :-)
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On 06/28/2001 12:37:48 PM ZE3 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
>On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi list.
>>
>> I checked the archives for this, and didn't find anything.
>> An irritating gpm problem, and it's the second machine this happens to
me
>> on - I compile a custom 2.4.x kernel, (this time, it was 2.4.5) on SuSE
7.1
>> (this doesn't happen with the default SuSE kernel) and when loading the
gpm
>> service (gpm -t ps2 -M /dev/mouse) the system (or just my virtual
consoles
>> or maybe even it's just the keyboard) gracefully crash (screen freezes).
If
>> I load SaX (the X config tool), it also loads gpm, and yep, kaboom. I'm
>> 99.99% sure I omitted a driver I shouldn't have when compiling a custom
>> kernel. I tried compiling in some possibly-related drivers like MCA
>> architecture, it didn't help.
>> It *may* be that "core input" is not compiled in at all (is this
mandatory
>> now? If I understand correct, it's only for USB stuff, my mouse is PS/2)
>> and, although this shouldn't affect things, I have no support for serial
>> ports in the kernel, since nothing is hooked onto there.
>
>crash or freeze?
>
>e.g.: can you connect to it from a network connection (if any) after such
>incident?
>
>As a tmporary workaround: rename the gpm binary, so SaX won't find it :(
>
>What type of mouse do you have, BTW?
>
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