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Re: weird gpm problem
- To: miki.shapiro(at-nospam)eAladdin.com
- Subject: Re: weird gpm problem
- From: Matan Ziv-Av <matan(at-nospam)svgalib.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:55:39 +0300 (IDT)
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- Reply-To: Matan Ziv-Av <matan(at-nospam)svgalib.org>
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 miki.shapiro@eAladdin.com wrote:
> 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.
These are the exact symptoms of not compiling ps2 mouse support. Is
there psaux in your /proc/misc file?
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Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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