Re: mouse freezing

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu>]

On 13 Feb 2002, Corrin Lakeland wrote:

> Running unstable, I'm getting my brand new optical PS/2 mouse freezing at
> random times.  This just affects the mouse, I can alt-tab to a xterm and run
> commands fine, I can even restart X to get the mouse working again, but it is
> still a pain. It freezes perhaps every thirty minutes on average and freezes
> more often when I'm using it than when I'm just typing away without touching
> the mouse.  I also sometimes get the mouse deciding the focus point is around
> 20 pixels left of where the pointer image is, and this often isn't fixed by
> restarting the X server.
>
> Mouse type: 4 button + scroll wheel optical PS/2 mouse
> Mouse protocol: Microsoft
> Video card: Trident based on the blade
> XFree: 4.1
>
> Is there any obvious solution (like I picked the wrong mouse driver?) or does
> amybody know what the command/ioctl to reset the PS/2 bus is so that I don't
> have to restart X?

I think you are the victim of the following bug, since your card is a
trident.

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_trident_mouse.html

Try putting

Option       "sw_cursor"

in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in the video card section.

                                 Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.