On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 01:28, Andre Costa wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:03:30 +1100 > Wolfgang <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 behaviour: 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. > > Thks, Wolf, will give it a try, too. Anyway, if it comes down to be a > PS/2 problem, I have always used PS/2 mice, never had a problem with > them -- this is my first optical mouse, though. > > BTW: X11 is up for 2h already today with "nv" driver (instead of > "nvidia"), no problems so far... [snip] I just remembered the other reason for going all USB. If you connect both a PS/2 and USB mice on the same system, USB seems to disable the PS/2 Mouse (I use a KVM here) Wolf
