Intentionally top posting. Well, the mouse is working now. Since the last time I wrote, I did try rebooting, and rebooting did not make the mouse work, so I tried varioius things, like unplugging the mouse cable from the kvm and plugging in a spare mouse (which I'm pretty sure was good, but didn't seem to help).
Finally, I tried plugging only one of the two cables from the KVM for the mouse and keyboard into the Jessie computer (one of the cables has a PS/2 plug and I had had that plugged into the only PS/2 port on this computer (I thought (and still think) it is for the keyboard), and the other has a USB plug. At this point, both the keyboard and mouse are working via that one USB cable. What I don't understand is how / why the system booted up properly when I first installed the KVM (a few months ago). But, it is working now, so I'll keep my fingers crossed. Nothing new below this line: On Friday, April 24, 2020 02:51:26 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Some followup: on my Wheezy system, I find kpsmoused running, I don't see > that on either my Jessie or Buster systems. > > I'm guessing that kpmoused might be what helps the mouse run in Wheezy / > non systemd. I'm pretty sure that Buster is systemd, and maybe so is > Jessie. In any event, I can't find an actual file named kpsmoused on any > of the systems (which surprises me on Wheezy). > > On Friday, April 24, 2020 02:34:29 PM rhkra...@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. > > > > I've tried googling and looking at (and trying some) commands found with > > apropos mouse or apropos x (a lot), but I haven't found a way to activate > > the mouse. > > > > (I'm assuming that if I reboot and mouse around early after the reboot, > > the mouse will be activated, but I'd like to avoid another reboot, and > > maybe learn something.) > > > > While I was looking for ways to activate the mouse, I did come across a > > place where I could click (well, via a keyboard shortcut) something that > > said something like: "activate mouse with KDE" -- maybe at some point in > > time I fat fingered something that unchecked that? > > > > Anyway, suggestions appreciated. > > > > I have tried to get to the "system settings" ahha, ok, I can type > > systemsettings at a CLI as user, but (1) I don't know how to navigate > > within that page to get to the mouse device, (2) but (on another system), > > although I see things to change about the mouse under Hardware ==> Input > > Devices ==> Mouse, I don't see anything that appears to activate (or > > de-activate) the mouse. > > > > Suggestions appreciated.
