John McBride wrote:
my mouse is freezing a lot in FC1/mozilla (my most frequently used app at home) might do it in other apps too, will have to watch for it, the only way to get cursor movement back is to ctrl-alt-fn to a virtual terminal and then ctrl-alt-f7 back to x.
this seems to have started after my last yum update.
Replying to my own post. My PS-2 mouse was dying a slow death. As it's life waned, the symptoms on my box grew even more bizarre.
Cube (the free doom engine game) would drop mouse/lock every 4-5 seconds then go black. 2D apps would run for hours at a time, but eventually lock.
The mouse would work "better" in my other (normally headless) machine, but still freeze X on the rare occasion.
Sometimes the keyboard would stop responding when the machine was booted and Fedora tried to "Start Console Mouse Services" (gpm). Occasionally Kudzu would sometimes find/not find the mouse (these symptoms were more recent and really got me suspicious of the mouse).
Yesterday it died completely while I devising ways to test it :-) A new mouse has fixed everything...several hours of gameplay now with zero errors.
--- John
