On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:33:54PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > Hello, > > My mouse just started behaving strangely, although I haven't done > anything, to the best of my knowledge. Hopefully somebody will have an > idea what to try! > > I was using my system (woody) as I have for the past many months when > the mouse suddenly froze. It's a Logitech cordless M-RN66, plugged in > via the PS/2 port. I hadn't changed anything immediately prior to the > freeze, for that matter I haven't changed any system level things for > quite a while. > > I rebooted into Windows 2000 and the mouse was frozen there too. I > switched to another mouse (corded PS/2 Logitech M-CAA43), pushing the > connector in and out a few times to clean it. I booted into Windows > again and it appeared to work. I rebooted into Debian and now have > weird behaviour. The pointer starts in the centre of the screen but as > soon as I start moving the mouse around it jumps to the bottom left. If > I move the mouse up and right, the pointer tracks up and right for a few > inches and then jumps back to the bottom left corner again. > > Feels like a hardware problem to me - has anybody seen these symptoms > before? It might be the X-doesn't-reset-the-mouse bug which tends to show up in dual-boot situations. What happens is that X doesn't reset the mouse before trying to initialise it. If it's already been initialised by Windoze it then doesn't respond correctly to the initialisation sequence that X sends it. To get it going again reset the mouse by hand: - kill X echo -ne '\377' > /dev/psaux - restart X -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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