Andre Costa wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:55:21 +1000
Scott Burns <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andre Costa wrote:
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...
Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 then Ctrl-Alt-F7
I use this on our old KVM switch to revive the mouse after swapping
terminals. I belive the "magic" part is that mouse control gets
swapped from X through to gpm then back to X, both of which
reinitialise the mouse.
Thks, Scott, this sounds like a nice workaround. I will try it next time
mouse dies. However, gpm is disabled here -- I thought it could have
something to do with this problem. I guess this (switching back and
forth from console) won't work without gpm, right? Anyway, I will try
starting up gpm when I switch to console.
As I said on a previous post, I am now trying XFree's own "nv" driver
instead of NVidia's, to try to narrow down the cause of the problem.
Let's see what happens...
Best,
Andre
It could be that your mouse driver is having issues now. Not that X
server is actually having a problem. Did you perhaps get your driver
changed for some reason or another? Have you reconfigured your mouse
driver? Change it to a generic mouse (ps/2, usb, serial respectively).
Then change it back to the correct driver. Maybe play with it as a
generic mouse and see if it happens again. Then if it doesn't change it
back to full driver and see if it still happens. If it still happens
you may want to track down the driver author and file a bug.
Wade
