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.

Thanks
Adam


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