On Wed,23.Jul.08, 10:32:25, Adam Hardy 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" --------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^ Try using "/dev/input/mice" instead. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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