On 10 Mar 2004 02:46:41 -0300 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mar 10, 2004, Andre Costa <acosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > Arjan gave me this tip the other day, when I ran into a similar > problem: Alt-F2, start xterm, run metacity --replace, and mouse > buttons work again. Not sure whether your problem is just with > buttons, or with being able to use the mouse to move the pointer, > select other apps, etc, but I thought I'd share the tip anyway. Thks, any info might be valuable -- if not for me, at least for others. Unfortunately, my problem is the worst one: mouse _really_ dies -- no pointer, no buttons, no light (it's optical). > It has saved me some work a number of times recently. I suspect I do > have some mouse hardware issue, that causes a very large number of > events to be triggered at about the same time, getting metacity very > confused. Of course it shouldn't lose touch with reality just because > of such an interactivity storm, but it looks like it does :-( That sucks =( I still can't say exactly what triggers the problem here on my box, but it does seem to come up earlier when I am doing some heavy interaction with mouse, like playing UT2004 demo. Also, problem doesn't seem to come up on windoze... =( Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
