i'm pretty new here, and have a problem which is probably quite easy to solve, but dont know how!
about once a week, when i left click with the mouse while pressing shift, the mouse completely hangs. I end up having to ctrl-alt-bsp and restarting X to get it working again. it's a microsoft usb optical mouse on a dell 4550. i'm running fedora core2 with the kernel upgraded to 2.6.8-1. i haven't upgraded gnome or anything.
i dont really want to restart X everytime it happens, but i wouldnt mind restarting the mouse server (or whatever software it is that does the i/o for the mouse). so here's my question: how do i just 'restart' the mouse?? btw i do have full keyboard access and can navigate to a bash console with it whenever it happens.
I used to have a problem like this with the USB optical mouse on my Dell box at work, but I've not seen it since I upgraded to the 2.6.8 kernel. The workaround I used to use was to unplug the mouse and plug it back in, which restored mouse functionality without having to restart X.
It looks a bit like Bug #124378 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124378
Paul.
