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My mouse keeps freezing up my CentOS 5 machine. The mouse works
fine for bit and then all of a sudden when I am moving it around
it freezes the machine completely and my only way out of it is to
re-boot. Anyone know how to fix this?
My mouse keeps freezing up my CentOS 5 machine. The mouse works
fine for bit and then all of a sudden when I am moving it around
it freezes the machine completely and my only way out of it is to
re-boot. Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks!
A little more information would help! Can you switch to another terminal? If using 'X' can use back out with ctrl-backspace?
I figure it must be some kind of laptop!I have a R31 Thinkpad with 1013 c3 and just 256MB's of ram. I have a problem with the battery monitor and my cursor going rampant where ever it wishes. what he means by terminal is I think to open whole new desktop,like you already got but with nothing going on it so far,you do not usually get a gui to help get signed in but some you do.
Now that I know you are using 'X' with Gnome then you can switch to a VT with ctrl-alt-F6. Once you are there you can see if the mouse is still functional. Do you have the 'gpm' loaded?
What mouse are you using? Did you look at the X error logs?
When you are working from the cli, you can always switch between vt (virtual terminals).
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