On Wednesday Feb6,2002 Wojciech Purchar wrote:
> 
> >               vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 808 flags: 5
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > Caught signal 8.  Server aborting
> >
> > Weird, weird...
> 
> same time i found case of my freezes. it was PS/2 connector (found it as
> before another crash i've seen kernel errors about PS/2).
> cleaning it and reinserting helped...
> 
> anyway it's strange that PS2 mouse problem can freeze machine (but manual
> removing and reconnecting it can do it too)
> 
> 

AAAhhhhh!!!!!

Now that does ring a bell!  I have pulled my PS/2 mouse out and reinserted it
and hung the machine also; or at least the mouse never came back.

I wonder why something so simple as a mouse could pull the rug out from
underneath X?

Gerry Simmons
simmons@darykon.cet.com