Hi, On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:25:14PM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > Hello All, > I am running Debian 3.0.r1 on Dell latitude c840 and when > I disconnect the PS/2 mouse,M$ Intellinouse PS/2, and then > connect it again I lose the mouse. When I reconnect the PS/2 > mouse the touch pad also is disabled. I have to restart X or go > to console and get back to X in order to have again mouse! > [..] > > Any idea why is this happening? > > Pavlos > I'm not 100% sure, but I've always thought that THIS is not problem, but this is feature, because that's how PS/2 works. AFAIK PS/2 mice cannot be unplugged once driver for them is loaded, after that they will stop working (it is not feature of Linux, try it in M$ Window$). After restarting X, the driver is reloaded and mouse will start working again. Maybe I am wrong, if so, someone corect me, please. Bye. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Martin Kacerovsky <wizard@matfyz.cz> http://wizard.matfyz.cz PGP 0x4CEC2A62 : 84F6 C043 AC1A 1591 ED80 9498 30C4 7ABE 4CEC 2A62 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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