Gary Wilson wrote:
> I've upgraded an Opteron machine from SL 3.05 i386 to SL 4.2 x64 (a 
> clean, new install). The reason I mention 3.05 is that there were no 
> issues when running on 3.05. Now the mouse is freezing and when it 
> freezes you can use the keyboard to logout, but that just goes to a 
> blank screen, with Xwindows frozen as well and only a hard reboot can be 
> done.
> 
> I've googled for SL, Red Hat and FC, but haven't found anything 
> relevant. Has anyone else seen this? Anyone have any suggestions, 
> besides going back to 3.05?
> 
> Gary Wilson
> [log in to unmask]

Hi Gary - Can you go to the terminal (say ctrl-alt-f1) and restart
the xserver or kill it?  Might save a reboot.  I have expereinced
freezes with X under various Linuxi - I usually can trace it to
problems with the NVIDIA drivers (must have my Quake!).  If you're
not running those... Maybe a bad mouse driver. ie. if you've switched
to usb or roller mice recently and not changed the xorg/XFree config.
-Karl


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