The Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:32:25 Adam Hardy, you wrote : > 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
I had the same problem a couple of days ago, maybe 2 weeks ago. Maybe we could fill a bug but I'm not sure. -- Thomas Preud'homme Why debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
