From: troyer@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Dean Troyer) Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse driver problems Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 00:11:24 GMT
In article <1993Jan13.192102.7510@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca> mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson) writes:
>system is SLS 0.98.5
>Symptom: X hangs after running for a short time
>(mono server, PS/2 bus mouse, mconv)
>
>I tracked it down to the mouse driver, in fact
>cat </dev/bmouseps2 >/tmp/foo
>followed by moving around the mouse
>will reliably hang the system (either system hangs or I get a general
>protection fault) .
I was finally able to duplicate this on a Zenith Z-433DEh last month.
The 0.99 kernels (at least 0.99.2) fixes the problems that I was able
to see. My Compaq never did display this behaviour...
>Mark
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dt
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