On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 02:13:17PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote:
> Hi, I've noticed a strange problem with vidcontrol and moused recently
> with current. I also had the same problem about 3 weeks back, and it
> doesn't seem to be occurring all that regularly.
>
>
> Here's what I was doing: I had just exited out of X, XFree86 Version
> 3.9.17. I had two sessions of bladeenc going simultaneously (if that even
> matters). I'm guessing maybe the issue is with the PCI bus being accessed
> by moused and the ATA driver at the same time, since bladeenc does
> generate some disk activity. Anyway, I heard a `pop' through my speakers,
> and at the same time, moused went dead. I su'd to root, killed and
> restarted moused. I could not get my moused cursor back (tried vidcontrol
> -m off ; vidcontrol -m on a couple of times).
This used to happen to me a lot with my Mouse Systems PS/2 mouse. I
blamed it on static.
I'm not sure when or why it stopped happening.
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