Re: resurrecting dead mouse
The Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:32:25 Adam Hardy, you wrote :
> Started my workstation today, logged in, launched startx: mouse was dead,
> pointer just sat inactive in the middle of the screen.
>
> Spent a while searching the debian-user archives, tabbing from link to link
> - fortunately some websites don't demand the mouse. Anyway, found no
> solution, so I rebooted. The mouse came back to life.
>
> What can do at the command line to avoid the reboot when this happens?
>
> I hadn't done anything to the system for the last 10 days or more, so there
> was no config changes or package installations. There were no relevant
> messages in /var/log/messages or dmesg. I just put it down to sunspots.
>
> My config is:
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> EndSection
>
> and I do have a KVM switch, which I tried switching around to resurrect the
> mouse, without success.
>
> This is etch, with xfce4.
>
> Thanks
> Adam
I had the same problem a couple of days ago, maybe 2 weeks ago. Maybe we could
fill a bug but I'm not sure.
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Thomas Preud'homme
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