Re: Xwindows problem on SPARC with RH6.2

27-Mar-02 at 09:46, Jonathan Swaby ([email protected]) wrote :
> I have 2 SparcStation 2's with RH6.2. Both have been updated with 
> XFree86-3.3.6-29. When I start X I get the following on one machine 
> received SIGPIPE signal: exiting, but X does start and it loads the 
> windows manager. On both machines, as soon as I move the mouse, the 
> screen freezes and I get about a 1" white border. I have to press 
> alt-F1 to get back to the console.  The console has a message that say 
> Fatal server error: 
> sunMouseEnqueueEvent: unrecognized id 
> xinit: connection to X server lost. 
> 
> The problem seemed to pop up after updating X. Both machines have 
> optical mice if that makes a difference. This has happened in the past, 
> and I would do setup and configure the mouse again. That has not 
> worked. I also tried re-running Xconfigurator, and that did not help. 
> Something I think is odd, is that I have the same software installed on 
> 2 Ultra 1s, and they both work find. Both of the Ultra's have 
> mechanical mice. 
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas? 

All I can think of is to try the mechanical mice and see if there is still
this problem.

If there is no issue with mechanical mice, you might need some kind of
driver... I don't really know. Optical mice use more power than mechanical
mice and this could be an issue with the Sun mouse port.

Simon

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