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[satimis]

Hi gruven,

The first thing I would do is recompile the program that is giving me problems.

I think most likely the hanging was caused by the mouse. Can I try another protocol? If YES please advise how to make the change.

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

.....
Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2" # PS/2 Mouse
    Option "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"

# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.

#    Option "Protocol"  "Xqueue"

# Mouse-speed setting for PS/2 mouse.

#    Option "Resolution"        "256"

# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice. In
# almost every case these lines should be omitted.

#    Option "BaudRate"  "9600"
#    Option "SampleRate"        "150"

# Mouse wheel mapping.  Default is to map vertical wheel to buttons 4 & 5,
# horizontal wheel to buttons 6 & 7.   Change if your mouse has more than
# 3 buttons and you need to map the wheel to different button ids to avoid
# conflicts.

    Option "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5 6 7"

# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)

    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
#    Option "Emulate3Timeout"    "50"

# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice

#    Option "ChordMiddle"

EndSection
.....

TIA

Another question, is that have you updated your compiler to 4.1.1 yet? I know it went stable not too long ago, and not sure if you are using it or not.

Which compiler? What command shall I run?

Others noted with tks.

B.R.
satimis

[gruven]

Change this line

    Option "Protocol"    "PS/2" # PS/2 Mouse

to this:

    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2" # PS/2 Mouse

There are others you can try, but that is pretty much the most common one.

Don't worry about the compiler, it was just a question that I was curious about.

You may also may try recompiling "xf86-input-mouse".

Try changing your XAxisMapping to "4 5" instead of "4 5 6 7".

Those are just suggestions, though. I am not really sure what it causing the lockups.

Although, after it locks up, you can check /var/log/Xorg.0.log and at the end of it it will tell you what crashed X.

[satimis]

Hi gruven,

Tried your suggestions without result.

I think we were looking at the wrong direction. I recall previously I had the same problem on Ubuntu 6.0.6. Then on /boot/grub/grub.conf I added "noapic" at the of the line

kernel  (hd0,0)/boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 noapic

Screen hanging problem disappeared thereafter. I'm now testing it.

B.R.
satimis