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11-14-2009, 02:14 PM
Please get yor brains together folks, this is weird & I really need help here!
Problem: Often when I use mouse-wheel/third-button/alt+right button screen hangs completely. Tried with different mice, also used these mice on other computers w/o problem so it's not a faulty mouse.
More details:
Just installed Debian Lenny/stable - since I want a stable system...
It hangs on three things (not always, very randomly!):
* Firefox - using mousewheel, sometimes middleclick-ing (wheel & middle are the same button on all my mice)
* OpenOffice - Pretty often! Not tied to any special mouse usage, but when it happens I was always using mouse..
* Kate - seldom (rarely use mouse there..), happened twice when resizing window w alt+right mouse-button.
What happens is:
The mouse cursor "stutters" across the screen but absolutely nothing can be done - no reaction from menus or running apps, "eyes" in the panel are not moving. Keyboard is also completely locked - caps/numlock leds dont change, cant switch to terminal, can't kill X w ctrl-alt-bspace...
Logging in via ssh I can see that the system is running, "Xorg" uses 100% or more (!) of cpu.
X cannot be killed. Switching runlevel to 2 (which here is runlevel1 + networking) doesn't help.
There seems to be nothing I can do to get my GUI back in working order.
"MagicSysRQ" works however, although the "power-off" doesn't power off completely: I hear the disks "go to sleep" but pwr-fan is running - and my screen still shows my frozen kde desktop!
There is nothing in any log about what's happening, not the tiniest clue.
I have left the system on for some 30 minutes, no change.
Computer:
Asustek mb, AMD64, 2GB RAM, usbmouse + trackball, ps2-keyboard, built-in VGA "ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]"
X.Org X Server 1.4.2 - unfortunately one without the xorg.conf so I can't say how it's configured. (Grrr I hate'em for doing that!)
Debian Lenny, kde3.5, RADEON driver (Can & will not try ATI:s drivers since they simply don't work (tried on Lenny, Mint 7, Mepis8, PCLinuxOS.))
Problem: Often when I use mouse-wheel/third-button/alt+right button screen hangs completely. Tried with different mice, also used these mice on other computers w/o problem so it's not a faulty mouse.
More details:
Just installed Debian Lenny/stable - since I want a stable system...
It hangs on three things (not always, very randomly!):
* Firefox - using mousewheel, sometimes middleclick-ing (wheel & middle are the same button on all my mice)
* OpenOffice - Pretty often! Not tied to any special mouse usage, but when it happens I was always using mouse..
* Kate - seldom (rarely use mouse there..), happened twice when resizing window w alt+right mouse-button.
What happens is:
The mouse cursor "stutters" across the screen but absolutely nothing can be done - no reaction from menus or running apps, "eyes" in the panel are not moving. Keyboard is also completely locked - caps/numlock leds dont change, cant switch to terminal, can't kill X w ctrl-alt-bspace...
Logging in via ssh I can see that the system is running, "Xorg" uses 100% or more (!) of cpu.
X cannot be killed. Switching runlevel to 2 (which here is runlevel1 + networking) doesn't help.
There seems to be nothing I can do to get my GUI back in working order.
"MagicSysRQ" works however, although the "power-off" doesn't power off completely: I hear the disks "go to sleep" but pwr-fan is running - and my screen still shows my frozen kde desktop!
There is nothing in any log about what's happening, not the tiniest clue.
I have left the system on for some 30 minutes, no change.
Computer:
Asustek mb, AMD64, 2GB RAM, usbmouse + trackball, ps2-keyboard, built-in VGA "ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]"
X.Org X Server 1.4.2 - unfortunately one without the xorg.conf so I can't say how it's configured. (Grrr I hate'em for doing that!)
Debian Lenny, kde3.5, RADEON driver (Can & will not try ATI:s drivers since they simply don't work (tried on Lenny, Mint 7, Mepis8, PCLinuxOS.))