hornett Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Hi there, I have the strangest problem with Slackware at the moment.... Web browsing is working fine except: 1. In order to recieve data, I have to constantly move the mouse! If I stop moving it, the loading stops until I move it again! 2. I am only able to click 'Search' in Google or 'Login' in Neowin when I am logged in as root. If i use my normal account, when I click the buttons nothing happens. This happens in Galleon and Mozilla. The text browser 'Links' seemed to work though. I'm thinking maybe the gecko engine doesn't have permission to open something its needing unless its running under root. :cry: :cry: Please help me cos I'm loving Slackware! OS: Latest Slack, 2.4 Kernel Mouse: USB (working fine usually) Network card (realtek not sure of model no. works fine in windows) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hannibal.net Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 virus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScriptDaddy! Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Very little chance of a Virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted February 16, 2004 Author Share Posted February 16, 2004 I hope not! I reinstalled 3 times and each time it has been the same. I don't think it is a hack because I am behind a strong Hardware firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 a virus in slackware please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted February 16, 2004 Subscriber² Share Posted February 16, 2004 I cannot diagnose, but I would say this: Virus? No! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted February 16, 2004 Author Share Posted February 16, 2004 With question 1 I was thinking it may be something to do with the interupts? But I don't know how to check they're not interfering (usb & netwrok card that is) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 What web browser are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Yeah its not a virus although it could be a software problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Have you tried Konquerer out - see if that has the same problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 try this: download firefox and save it in your home directory. untar it to your home directory. see if firefox runs correctly. if it works it might be a permissions problem, but if it works why worry about it cause now you got firefox ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted February 16, 2004 Share Posted February 16, 2004 Hi there, I have the strangest problem with Slackware at the moment.... Web browsing is working fine except:1. In order to recieve data, I have to constantly move the mouse! If I stop moving it, the loading stops until I move it again! 2. I am only able to click 'Search' in Google or 'Login' in Neowin when I am logged in as root. If i use my normal account, when I click the buttons nothing happens. This happens in Galleon and Mozilla. The text browser 'Links' seemed to work though. I'm thinking maybe the gecko engine doesn't have permission to open something its needing unless its running under root. :cry: :cry: Please help me cos I'm loving Slackware! OS: Latest Slack, 2.4 Kernel Mouse: USB (working fine usually) Network card (realtek not sure of model no. works fine in windows) maybe you didnt correctly add your new user account, go back and check it again. visit slackware.com on how to add a new user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 OK ### Problem 1 I have this EXACT problem on my laptop - it's occured with SuSE 8.2+9.0, Slackware 9.1, Gentoo, Debian, and Fedora Core 1 - so it's not distro specific, nor does it seem to be package specific, as the problem occurs under GNOME 2.2/2.4/GNOME 2.5 and KDE 3.1/3.2 (and any other DE or WM for that matter). The problem is ever present with the 2.4-series kernels (2.4.16 and later, untested for prior), and present maybe half the time with the 2.6-series kernels (up through 2.6.1 - haven't tried .2 or .3). I'm using a USB MS Trackball Explorer and Netgear PCMCIA NIC (tulip-based) on a Dell Latitude CPi-A400XT. It happens on fresh boots where both devices are plugged in, when I unplug the trackball and plug it in later, when the system comes out of sleep or hibernate, or when I down eth0 to start pppd and then bring eth0 back up later on. The problem is a mix-up with the interrupts. Since the NIC is on hotplug, I pop out the NIC and throw it back in (thus resetting the NIC, it's interrupt, resource addresses, etc). A solution for a desktop PC might be to remove the NICs module, and then modprobe for that module again. Doing this on the fly is possible, so you don't have to reboot the system all the time. If you are doing a cold boot, unplug your USB mouse until AFTER init3 or init5 has finished. Then plug in the USB mouse. Since I've got this little work-around, I haven't gone indepth yet into finding where the exact problem lies. Once I do start digging though, I'll let you know, so I can submit a bug report to whoever is causing the issue. I'm leaning towards Hotplug being the issue, but I'm no where near even 50% sure about that - it could be the tulip driver in the kernel as well, since the problem does NOT happen when I use just my Netgear 802.11b NIC (prism-based). ### Problem 2 Have you tried Epiphany or Konqueror yet? I know Epiphany is gecko-based, but I've seen differences between how it renders/handles things compared to Firebird/Firefox and MozillaSuite. download firefox and save it in your home directory. untar it to your home directory. see if firefox runs correctly. This was going to be my next suggestion! Great minds think alike :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I had this problem. Disabling APIC and ACPI in the kernel config fixed things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splatnix Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 For me, I have ACPI disabled - as it causes massive problems with my laptop - but I'm not sure about APIC. I'll see if that works. Thanks for the advice! Hopefully this solves the issue with the parent poster as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I have to have acpi running or my laptop occasionally shuts off due to overheating. well at least thats why I think it turns off during long high processing times if I don't have acpi enabled. but try apm instead if removing acpi helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted February 18, 2004 Author Share Posted February 18, 2004 I reinstalled slack using the kernel with acpi enabled (I'm too inexperienced to add it to the kernel if that is even possible). The problem with the mouse seems to be cured. I think this is because the kernel is now using acpi to manage the interupts or at least something along those lines. I don't know what was wrong with problem 2 before, but it is cured now. Perhaps gecko didn't get installed properly for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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