Re: Activate the mouse after a reboot which didn't activate the mouse?

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: 
> Today I had to reboot my Jessie system, after Firefox totally hung the system 
> (for over an hour, with 20 tabs open).  After the reboot, it seems that most 
> things are working (well, the things I can test without a mouse), but the 
> mouse is not working.
> 
> The Jessie system is connected to a KVM system, and because I had to run some 
> errands, I started the boot process and then left, with the KVM set to the 
> Jessie system.
> 
> When I came back and tried it, I found that the mouse is not working.  The 
> mouse still works on the other two systems connected to the KVM switch.

This is a thing that KVM systems sometimes do.

Assuming it's a USB mouse: unplug it, plug it back in.

-dsr-