On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:55:02 -0500 Travis Fraser <travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Mmmh... this is interesting. Do you also use NVidia's driver? I sent a msg to XFree86 ML at RedHat, and Mike Harris (one of the XFree86 maintainers) sent me a very nice reply, with a couple of suggestions. One of them was to temporarily switch to XFree86's own "nv" driver instead of NVidia's, to try to narrow down the problem. I am currently running X with "nv" driver, and will see how far it goes without this annoying problem of "mouse auto-shutdown". I don't boot into windoze much often (mainly for games), but I did it yesterday and didn't experience any mouse problems. I still need more data, but so far it does seem to be a Linux-only issue... =( I will post back here any further info I gather. Thks for helping, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
