[PLUG] Mouse click crashes X (I think)

Kenneth B. Hill ken at scottshill.com
Thu Jun 21 20:23:42 UTC 2007


My experience has been poor hardware driver support. If you are using  
Feisty in AMD64, then that is likely the problem. I have a 32-bit of  
Feisty running on an AMD64 box with no mouse hardware problems. Maybe  
Ubuntu should not of used the name "Feisty" for their current version  
release ;)

-Ken

On Jun 21, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Quentin Hartman wrote:

> On 6/21/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Ubuntu Feisty amd64, completely up to date
>> Compaq R3240 laptop, nVidia GeForce 4, plenty of free disk space,  
>> 1.25 GB
>> RAM.
>> Logitech USB wireless notebook mouse
>
>
> <snip problem description>
>
> It's been my experience that weird semi-inexplicable problems are  
> more often
> than not rooted in hardware. What you describe sounds an awful lot  
> like
> dodgy RAM. I'd suggest running the memtest86 that ubuntu includes  
> in the
> grub menu overnight (or longer) to at least rule it out as a suspect.
>
> I was having similar chronic computer crashiness some months ago. I  
> gave the
> RAM a good thorough test, and after running for about 12 hours, one  
> of the
> modules started throwing errors. Got it replaced under warranty, and I
> haven't had a problem since.
>
> I've seen similar situations play out that way a number of times.
> -- 
> -Regards-
>
> -Quentin Hartman-
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