On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 08:28, Andre Costa wrote: > 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 have an ATI Rage128 video card with standard ati driver. Latest XFree update. Mouse is Logitech corded optical wheel mouse. The mouse protocol is IMPS/2. My uptime is 11 days since last mouse trouble. Travis Fraser
