On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 15:09, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Roland Wegmann wrote: > > > I have a curious mouse problem! When I start debian, the system > > recognizes my mouse (MS Wheel Mouse Optical USB) first. After kdm is > > launched, sometimes my mouse is inactive sometimes it works. > > In the former case I have to reboot the system (sometimes several > > times), but then the mouse works under KDE 2.1.1, too. Under X-Window > > the mouse was active in any case. > > > > Could you give me some help, please? > > Does your system behavior match that reported in bug 113022? > http://bugs.debian.org/113022 > > Also, does anyone notice similar behavior to 113022 using a non-fbdev X > driver? I've noticed it on PowerPC and ARM both using the fbdev driver > (offb on PPC, cyber2000fb on ARM), so with fbdev as the common thing, > that's what I suspect is at fault...
Maybe, you could try enabling debug output in the fbdev driver and/or the fbdevhw module. Some display managers have an option to always restart the X server on session exit, that might serve as a workaround. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
