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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.sgi.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!shore.net!news From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: psm mouse and 2.1.5 Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 21:25:17 -0400 Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates Lines: 22 Message-ID: <325C507D.41C67EA6@rwwa.com> References: <53cop3$aao@newshost.lanl.gov> <53cr6a$5hj@uuneo.neosoft.com> <53gl98$aq5@helena.MT.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rwwa.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Nate Williams wrote: > > [ Emailed as well ] > > In article <53cr6a$5hj@uuneo.neosoft.com>, > Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote: > >>I vaguely remember reading that there is a problem with the ps2 > >>mouse under 2.1.5. Is that correct? > >> > >One thing I've noticed is that, after running an X session for a certain > >length of time, the mouse begins behaving strangely. Me too... Aside from the AWE32PNP-clobbers-psm problem which I resolved by cmos diddling, I have several p6-200 systems where the PSM dies, and nothing but a server restart brings it back. This always seems to happen while xlock is running. The keyboard stays active in this case... -- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 592 8935, Net: witr@rwwa.COM