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.