Exesive use of Mousewheel seems to hang X

maxmc

Every now and then my X session goes into 99% CPU usage
and it never goes down again. I can't click on anything but I can still move the mouse.
I can't change to another terminal or kill the process remotely
because when I kill X (via ssh session) everything just hangs.

About 4 minutes ago it happened again this time while scrolling down a discussion on these very forums.
Now I wonder if anyone else has this problems. Right now my Linux is worse than WinXP... I use both Gnome and KDE mostly gnome now since I can't compile kdelibs-3.0.4-r1

The only way I've found to cure the problem is to reebot and hope it doesn't happen again. My Logs show no record of any errors.

maxmc · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 4:37 pm Post subject:

Does anyone have a similar problem or a possible solution?

I'm using WinXP currently cause it hangs so often...

abergou · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 7:00 pm Post subject:

On a completely different machine I had a problem like this (Ibm thinkpad t22), and for me it turned out to be an x11 video driver issue..... namely there was a hardware bug that they needed to work around. I upgraded the driver and things went back to working fine. Not sure if you're in this kind of a situation. I've had no problems lately.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from OTG.
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