[7289] in Athena Bugs
Freezing mice on RT while using idraw
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 12 14:34:55 1991
From: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 91 14:33:30 -0500
To: jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Jonathan I. Kamens"'s message of Tue, 12 Mar 91 01:04:04 -0500 <9103120604.AA00796@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
This sounds like a hardware problem. Possibly a loose mouse
connection, or a flakey mouse card, or even static building up and
shocking the mouse. The RT mice are very finicky.
It happened on *two different RT's*. I neglected to mention that the
first time. Both worked fine after rebooting, so it wasn't a
mechanical problem with the mouse or its connector in either case.
-ken
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From: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 08:30:49 -0500
Twice tonight, after using idraw for a *LONG* time, the mouse suddenly
froze. Button presses did nothing, and neither did moving it around.
Everything else (screen, keyboard, whatever) was ok.
This is on a PC/RT.
I lost a lot the second time, because I was in the middle of a
mouseful operation (drawing a polygon), and couldn't get out of it to
save my file. Has anyone else experienced these freezes? I don't
know if they're due to idraw or not for sure.
:-(
-ken
