In my case the ps/2 mouse is just plain broken. (2.4.0-test2)
I have Inspiron 5000 with synaptics touchpad.. gpm gets _lots_
of invalid data so in X the mouse freezes periodically. Interestingly
enough at some point this behaviour was freezing the machine. I think this
has something to do with enormous amount of data passed to syslogd..
(or perhaps ps/2 bus trying to recover..)
Vladimir Dergachev
PS and yes, I have the latest version of gpm, I did recompile it and I
looked into driver's source - zero comments about any changes made to
psaux device.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In 2.4.0-test{{1,2}{,ac*},3-pre*}, there seem to be some very weird things
> happening which kill my machine:
>
> - As soon, as the parallel port module (lp, parport, parport_pc) get loaded,
> networking and the mouse and keyboard in X die (checked networking with a
> ping from my second machine)
>
> - If I happen to be on a VT, only networking dies -- _until_ I move the mouse,
> then the complete system freezes. If I don't move the mouse but remove the
> parport modules, networking doesn't get restored.
>
> - The printing seems to be pretty hosed -- it prints a few pages, probably as
> much as fits into the printer's RAM (if I don't move the mouse :-) and then
> seems to be stuck.
>
> I cannot recall whether that happened with 2.3.99* as well.
>
> Some info which might or might not be relevant:
>
> - PII/350 on a Gigabyte GA6BX/E board
> - (sucky) Nvidia Riva128
> - X running on VT7 (XF86_SVGA-3.3.6)
> - gpm running on the console
> - Logitech Mouseman Wheel PS/2, running with IMPS/2 protocol
> - (old) RealTek RTL8139 NIC, shares IRQ with ES1370 sound card
> - parport claims to use IRQ7 which is unused otherwise
>
> Any additional info available on request.
>
> Nils
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