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  From: <michaeld@senet.com.au>
  To  : HALES, Brett <brett.hales@baesystems.com>
  Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:55:38 +091800

Re: Digital Laptop XF86-4 Problem - RH 7.2

Quoting "HALES, Brett" <brett.hales@baesystems.com>:

> I have a problem with a Digital HiNote Ultra II notebook internal trackball
> mouse running RedHat 7.2. I normally use fvwm2 and it works fine, until I
> open up Netscape. X then freezes - cannot Alt - Ctrl - Backspace etc. At
> this stage the machine continues running, if I ssh into the machine and
> send
> a SIGUSR1 to the X process xdm dies and starts back up again.
> 
> This also happens if I _try_ to use KDE.
> 
> However if I plug in a serial or PS/2 mouse everything works correctly. 
> 
> Has anybody seen this before / know of a fix.

I think I've seen Netscrape do this to XFree86 when there's a colour map issue.  
ie run out of colours and X goes belly up.  It is possible to limit the # of 
colours Netscrape uses, but that page of my memory is currently swapped out.  
See google.

Of course I could be totally off track.  But I HTH,

Michael...
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