On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 00:46, Andre Costa wrote: > 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 > I'm running two mice on my system. One for std use as a pointer and the other one is a trackball used for gaming. No problems here. They are both connected to the USB ports and both are optical (Both Logitech Mice). I did have problems with PS/2 mice in earlier versions of linux (RH7 or 8 had this problem). So I went USB, no problems since. Wolf
