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Fedora 14 Hangs - PS2 Mouse is Bad Mmmkay - SOLVED

(insert mental picture of South Park's Mr. Mackey here) Smolts Profile is here . Fedora Core 14 x86_64 dual boot with Windows 7 ASUS P7P55D-E Pro Intel i7 processor 3ware 9650SE RAID card ATI Radeon HD4350 PS2 Mouse and Keyboard Things would work great for about 5 or 10 minutes and then the system would lock up. Mouse cursor freezes Keyboard has no effect Can SSH into system and shutdown gracefully I found that the best stress test for this problem was a vigorous game or two of minesweeper - very mouse intensive that game! The various Linux message boards are full of descriptions of this sort of thing and most folks thing that this is a mixed bag of problems - similar symptoms but perhaps a large variety of causes. Hard to say without having a definitive analysis of each instance. There are lots of "home remedies" - changing kernel versions, changing video drivers, changing the boot parameters for the kernel, changing xorg.conf, etc. but again, t...