Dear Larry, Not sure if this will help, but I had the observed behaviour when updating some packages of the stock SL5.5 x386 LiveDVD using yumex. The OS was installed on a USB stick. (Unfortunately, I didn't pursue it further: I assumed it was freak given occasional corruption of my USB stick.) This was on an AMD 64 bit machine with an nvidia graphics card that I happened on. As I recall, the USB mouse and keyboard stopped working with a message that interrupt 193 (I think) was henceforth ignored. However, I regained keyboard control when I attached a PS/2 keyboard. (I didn't have a PS/2 Mouse to try out.) On reboot, I didn't have the problem again! Hope the above is of help William. --- On Tue, 2/15/11, Larry Vaden <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: Larry Vaden <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: a request for independent confirmation|refutation of observed behavior of 5.6 x86_64 X11 > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 12:19 AM > Hello SL list members, > > This is a request for independent confirmation or > refutation of > observed behavior of 5.6 x86_64 X11. > > The observed behavior is that X11 on an AMD 64 locks up > when probed > with 'nmap -A -PN host.domain.tld' (Nmap v 4.11 from 5.6) > whereas it > does not lock up when probed with a relatively recent > release, Nmap > 5.21. > > Specifically, the console session's mouse pointer can still > be moved, > but mouse clicks and the keyboard aren't functional. > > Further, other jobs running in non-X11 mode proceed as > normal. > > If you can confirm or refute this observed behavior, please > reply. > > kind regards/ldv > ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news