Accessing mouse locks up all input

[Skroob]

This one is kind of strange. Whenever something trys to use the mouse, the keyboard stops responding and the mouse doesn't work either. I can still log in remotely and kill the proces. Most of the time it seemed didn't fix the problem, but at least this morning I was able to continue using the keyboard.

This was a working system as of a two days ago. I do run Debian unstable and have updated a bunch of packages lately. But no one else seems to be having any problems. Any ideas where I can look for problems? I've skimmed /var/log[messages,dmesg,syslog,gdm] and the startx logs and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

EDIT: fixed some punctuation

Any pointers would be much appreciated
Skroob

[ 05 August 2001: Message edited by: Skroob ]

[Pras]

Do you get the same problem with using the mouse under gpm in the console? If not, it may be just an X problem. Or if it works in X and not the console, try the other way around. Also check /var/log/XFree86.0.log. The EE lines are errors and WW are warnings.

[Skroob]

Yeah it's gpm and X. Unfortunately the logs don't show anything unusual. Just the normal error about not being able to find mga_hal and disabling dri.