On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 22:08, Andre Costa wrote: > Hi, > > I've been experiencing lately some weird mouse behavior: all of a > sudden, mouse simply goes off, and even though X11 remains responsive > (keyboard works), it usually leaves me no option besides killing X11 > with CTRL+ALT+BKSP -- which often makes me lose some work. Restarting X > brings mouse back up again, as if nothing had happened. > > Mouse is MS IntelliMouse Wheel Optical, graphics board is a GeForce4 > Ti4200, XFree is latest version (4.3.0-55), NVidia drivers are also > latest (5336). > > I can't really precise if this started happening after latest X update > -- been using this configuration for a while already, and never > experienced any such problems. Also, problem doesn't seem to be > repeatable on windoze on the same machine. > > It could of course be a hardware (mouse) problem, but I would like to > know if anyone had any similar experience -- or has any black-magic > procedure to make X "re-probe" the mouse... > > TIA > > Andre > > -- > Andre Oliveira da Costa > I have noticed twice in the last two weeks my mouse acting the same way. I assumed it was a hardware thing. When it happened I used the keyboard to shutdown my programs and then restarted the computer. I will check next time if it is just restarting X that fixes it. Travis Fraser
