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lethal mice
Hey.
My setup:
I'm running XFree86 3.2 (-9) on a boosted-and-upgraded redhat-4.2
system. My mouse is a psaux on-board thingie with driver compiled
statically (not as a module). Hardware is a dusty Compaq 575e.
X is run from script, not from xdm, and window manager is tvtwm,
which is a virtual-desktop version of twm. It has no version of
its own (that I could find) but thinks it comes with MIT X11R5.
The problem:
Unplug mouse.
Replug it.
Move it some: no response from mouse, keyboard is okay
switch to a VC and back: everything back to normal
BUT:
Unplug mouse.
Replug it.
Move it some: no response
Switch to a VC for a longer time, use the mouse (gpm) there
Switch back to X: yikes, it dies, with the message:
Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy)
This is quite disturbing, especially when you've got anywhere
between two and six computers on your desk and cables start
losing. AND those 15 windows you just had in your X are snarfed.
Now, the confusing bit here is who's fault is this? The X server?
the window manager? gpm? kernel?
Ideas, anyone?
Gaal
PS: I must admit the effects of pulling out the mouse on other
platforms can get much worse, such as AIX cute system freeze,
but this is still not nice!