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From: Adrian Cox <apc@agelectronics.co.uk>
To: safemode <safemode@voicenet.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:40:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A7556C6.5A9518FA@agelectronics.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A75278F.B41B492B@bigfoot.com> <3A75507A.9386AFE2@agelectronics.co.uk> <3A75546F.DAC87368@voicenet.com>

safemode wrote:
> Adrian Cox wrote:
> > Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> > > 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner of screen and
> > > locks for a bit
> > This happens to me about once a month on a BX chipset PII machine here,
> > and on a KT133 chipset machine I have.  I have to hit ctrl-alt-backspace
> > to regain control of the console. I always assumed it was a bug in X,
> > but it never caused me enough trouble to actually make me pursue it.
> turn off gpm..   fixes the mouse problem immediately.   as in killall -9 gpm
> before starting X.

I don't even have gpm installed on these machines, precisely for this
reason. Whatever it is, it isn't gpm. But I also believe it isn't Via,
and I'm not convinced that it's the kernel.

- Adrian Cox
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-29 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-29  8:19 More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux Dylan Griffiths
2001-01-29 11:14 ` Adrian Cox
2001-01-29 11:30   ` safemode
2001-01-29 11:40     ` Adrian Cox [this message]
2001-01-29 11:48   ` Lars Gaarden
2001-01-30  1:02   ` Matthew Fredrickson
2001-01-29 16:01 ` Benson Chow
2001-02-02 14:55 ` Rogerio Brito
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-29  9:20 Quim K Holland
2001-01-29 10:20 ` David Raufeisen
2001-01-29 14:14 ` Mark Hahn
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101290853030.26212-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-01-29 18:36 ` Dylan Griffiths
2001-02-02 16:30 Dunlap, Randy
2001-02-05  3:00 ` Rogerio Brito

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