RH 7.1 doing down in flames.....crap!

[tecknophreak]

I was sitting at my comp doing some low-level SCSI programming and the next thing I know, my mouse goes all sorts of crazy. All over the place, making random menus. So I figure I messed something up and I rebooted.

When I comes up it gets to the

Red Hat 7.1 Seawolf blah blah

localhost.localdomain login:

the screen starts flashing and i get the error message:

[drm: i810_flush_queue] *ERROR* lockup

everytime the screen comes back on.

If anyone can help me that'd be nice. I can get onto the machine using the recover disk, but I'm not sure what to do n where to go.

I noticed in a /var/log file something about the gpm.

If more info is needed, i can send it asap.

Thanks a bunch i need this up and working post haste.

[Silent Bob]

I dunno if this is much help to you, but AFAIK the i810 is an intel graphics chipset.

Is there something up with your graphics-card drivers? I think that rescue mode loads up standard vga ones as opposed to card specific ones.

I hope this points you in the right direction :)

[bdg1983]

gpm is general purpose mouse and has been known to cause problems with the X mouse driver unless it is setup correctly and (I think) /dev/gpmdata used in XF86Config(-4).

Until you get the problem fixed, I would suggest you disable gpm for the time being.

So how do you disable gpm you might ask? I believe it starts up as a service, so whatever Redhat uses for services startup and shutdown.

[tecknophreak]

Thanks for the help. I had an extra kernel lying around which I forgot about. I took off the old mouse and put on a new one. then kunzu or whatever it calls itself found it and I changed the protocol for it and all.

I'll change them back later. The problem was the mouse. Stupid thing, just work in text from now on.