On 13 Feb 2002, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> Running unstable, I'm getting my brand new optical PS/2 mouse freezing at > random times. This just affects the mouse, I can alt-tab to a xterm and run > commands fine, I can even restart X to get the mouse working again, but it is > still a pain. It freezes perhaps every thirty minutes on average and freezes > more often when I'm using it than when I'm just typing away without touching > the mouse. I also sometimes get the mouse deciding the focus point is around > 20 pixels left of where the pointer image is, and this often isn't fixed by > restarting the X server. > > Mouse type: 4 button + scroll wheel optical PS/2 mouse > Mouse protocol: Microsoft > Video card: Trident based on the blade > XFree: 4.1 > > Is there any obvious solution (like I picked the wrong mouse driver?) or does > amybody know what the command/ioctl to reset the PS/2 bus is so that I don't > have to restart X? I think you are the victim of the following bug, since your card is a trident. http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_trident_mouse.html Try putting Option "sw_cursor" in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 in the video card section. Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
