Re: Keyboard/mouse lockup... again

From: Sean Hunter (sean@uncarved.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 02:12:55 EST


Interesting. Its almost exactly the same symptoms, though. I wonder
if there is a common underlying cause that is being triggered by X and
gpm?

Sean

On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:14:56PM -0800, david wrote:
> Sorry, won't fix it here :)
>
> a) I don't run gpm, almost always in X.
> b) with this particular cardbus NIC, networking doesn't work.
>
> as a matter of fact, inserting this cardbus linksys tulip card now gives an
> immediate OOPS and about 5 seconds of scroll and the ssytem becomes useless.
>
> with the linksys ne2k nic/modem combo, in a few kernels back, if i booted
> with the card inserted, it wouldn't work and X keyb/mouse wouldn't work.
> but if i booted then inserted it, it would work. also, if i inserted it
> secondary to my already inserted aviator 2.2 wireless nic, it wouldn't work.
>
> -d
>
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Sean Hunter wrote:
> > I reported this a while ago. It is caused by gpm. If you start gpm
> > after boot, it works fine. If you log in via the net and kill gpm,
> > you get your keyboard back.
> >
> > Sean
>
>
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