mouse and screen lockups

[Elton Woo]

Video subsystem: Viewsonic 17  monitor (1024 x 768 or
at 1280 x 1024) - 24 bit, video card: Jaton 3-D Force (32 Mb).
Logitech Optical Wheel USB mouse. System memory: 512 Mb.
Athlon CPU (1.0 Gb)

Whenever the screen blanker kicks in (under Gnome) the mouse
freezes and I get a black screen. Sometimes the mouse would
also lock up when there is a lot of system activity. I usually have
to unplug it from the hub, and replug.

In the case where the screen turns black, instead of running the
screen saver, I have to hit the return key several times both
to *find* the pointer, and to regain control of the mouse.

Driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run
Installed using export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1
with kernel-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl
For kernel-2.4.22-1.2084.nptl and kernel-2.4.22-1.2087.nptl,
it was installed using export CC=gcc32.

This behavoir is consistent with all 3 kernels.

Has anyone else observed this behavoir?

Elton
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