On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:05:43PM -0500, Rick Meyerhoff wrote: [ping troubles snipped] > It's annoying to turn it off because I > only have one mouse (gave the spares away) and if I move the mouse from > the Linux box Linux stops recognizing the mouse when I replace it and so > I have to reboot. > One way around this problem that has worked for me in the past is to switch from X to a text console (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1), then back into X (Ctrl-Alt-F7). Much faster than rebooting. -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list