Re: X-Windows

Mark Lehrer (lehrer@mailhost.bellhow.com)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 09:43:20 -0400

> Lately, while in X I have been having keyboard and mouse lockups. The
> mouse cursor moves, but none of the clicks do anything. I can shut the
> system down from another machine, but I can't get my machine to do
> anything. So far it's only happened while running Netscape 2.01, but
> there was a time, (somewhere between 1.3.85 - 1.3.88) where Netscape
> couldn't have worked any better. I don't want to put all the blame on the
> kernel, but just wanted to know if anyone else is having this problem.
> The system doesn't give any strange messages either. Anybody have an idea
> why this is happening?

i have a similar symptom; i have a logitech mouseman and i believe
it is a bug in X' handling of the mouseman protocol (but i have no
tests to base this theory on :-)

if i press the middle mouse button it unfreezes, which is an ok
workaround for me. but the first couple of times it happened i
was really worried.