From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 27 06:48:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA22933 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 06:48:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibmmail.COM (ibmmail.com [199.171.26.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA22925 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 06:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from IMXGATE.COM by ibmmail.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with BSMTP id 3743; Wed, 27 Nov 96 09:48:23 EST Received: from sv13.cis.squared.com by imxgate.com (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Wed, 27 Nov 96 09:48:19 EST Received: from mg01a.mhs.squared.com by sv13.cis.squared.com (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA30752; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:48:11 -0500 Received: from NetWare MHS (SMF70) by mg01a.mhs.squared.com via Connect2-SMTP 4.00.b27D; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:47:12 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1B20D15B0187397C> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 9:51:13 -0500 From: "Sexton, Robert" Organization: Square D To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X/Mouse/2.1.5 Wierdness Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Connect2-SMTP 4.00.b27D MHS to SMTP Gateway Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mystery Solved: (Admittedly, a low priority problem) For those of you who forgot the original problem: X was freezing whenever the mouse crossed a window boundary. Click and drag was also non-functional. Long ago, when experimenting with ntp and a gps, /dev/gps0 was linked to /dev/mouse. ntp was grabbing all the mouse bytes! I suspect that when a window event happened, there was a context switch, and ntp would move to the front of the run queue. Since it runs at a higher priority, the X server would never get anything! - Robert Sexton