Sorry to have delayed in writing this, but if I understand your symptoms
correctly I think I am experiencing the same odd PPP "lockups" with my mouse
too! It is tremendously erratic, so far as I can tell (perhaps because I
often continue mousing while downloading or websurfing?), but I have
definitely noticed it: a web page stops loading until I move the mouse. The
moment I do move it, the page begins loading again normally again. Similar
behavior with downloads.
My hardware: MS Serial Intellimouse on COM1 (is that cua0?), Diamond
Telecommander 3500 (28.8Kbps) on COM2 (is this cua1?). cua0/COM1 is
IRQ4/03f8; cua1/COM2 is IRQ3/02f8. I dual boot with Win95; it shows no
conflicts in Device Mangler and I have never experienced this behavior in
Win95. I had RH4.1 on the box prior to 5.0, and I don't recall ever seeing
it there either (but I've slept since then, so I could be wrong about that).
Nothing unusual appears in /var/log/messages, either. My kernel: 2.0.33; all
relevant errata applied.
-----Original Message-----
From: Db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, April 04, 1998 17:10
Subject: my rodent is still a swine
>
>Well, I retraced every procedure I've tried before, to no avail. As I have
>no immediate neighbours, I've found another way out of it is to turn the
>wick up on the stereo so my desk vibrates just enough to make the
>mousepointer do a little breakdance in rythmic sympathy (^8
>
> Another (perhaps stoopid) idea I had, was to plug the win95 drive from
>the machine down in the shop, into this box. After the initial gnash of it
>identifying all the different hardware, I notice *it* finds my serial
>ports exactly where RHL-5 (and the rhl install) finds them, and the
>'device manager' echos a situation of NIL hardware conflicts. I doubt this
>observation means a hell of a lot..but windoze was able to mouse blank,
>screenblank, and do other blank things...all the time without locking up
>during a download, or needing a swift kick in the mouse to get it going...
>
> Wouldn't it send you to tears..I plugged my usual redhat drive back in,
>and the problem returns forthwith. Dammit..if suckware like windows can
>manage it, so can rhl...
>
>3 further questions;
>
>1> if it *was* a conflict on the irq between serial ports, would I expect
>to see BOTH the RX & TX lights go 'dead'?? This is not the case..the TX
>led will indicate it's sending something, it's only the INCOMING side that
>locksup...simply NO activity with the RX led ONLY...until I touch the
>mouse of course.
>
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