Re: mouse wheel scroll freezes gnome2 (and x)

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 16:54, Dan Dube wrote:
> i just compiled gnome-desktop in garnome 0.24.2, and i
> am having an issue that i have had in versions 0.23.1
> and 0.21.2:  when i scroll the mouse wheel in a gnome2
> app (such as the terminal that comes with gnome2, or
> the network browser), the entire xserver seems to
> freeze.  i still can move the mouse around, but there
> is no response from anything.  
> 
> the keyboard doesn't seem to respond either, as
> ctrl-alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-bkspc don't do anything.  when
> this freeze occurs, i can log into the computer from
> another computer, but killing the app doesn't remove
> it from the screen, and killing the xserver freezes up
> the entire system.  (as does the reboot command)
> 
> this seems like an xserver problem, except that the
> scrolling works fine in apps that i used in gnome1
> (even when run in gnome2).  gtk2 apps seem to work
> fine in gnome1, but mozilla with xft support freezes
> the computer in both gnome1 and gnome2 when i go to
> scroll the mouse.  

Do you have MS Windows fonts installed on your system?

> i didn't see anything related to the crash in
> /var/log/, i crashed it and then checked just to be
> sure.
> 
> i am running an up-to-date debian sarge system, with
> an nforce1 motherboard (and hence the built in geforce
> card)

Are you using the xfree driver or the nvidia driver?

> if this is more of a gnome issue, please let me know
> where would be more appropriate to post it.  

It's most likely either an X or fontconfig issue. 

Bob

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Bob Kashani