Re: [TCLUG:2960] losing mouse in X11

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

Check and see what resources your mouse might be conflicting with.  If it
is a serial mouse (ttyS0, ttyS1, cua0, cua1), it might be modem related.
PS/2 (psaux) mice sometimes conflict with other devices on the machine
which occupy the same IRQ.  If the 3-finger salute is enough to fix it,
it's not that big of a problem.  You might want to consider moving the
mouse from the port it uses (PS/2 or serial) to the other.  Most mice come
with a cool PS/2 to serial converters.

Peter Lukas
Math Systems Office
University of Minnesota

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Jon Schewe wrote:

> I'm running XFree86-3.3.3 under RedHat 5.2.  I've had this problem under
>  RedHat 5.1 and 5.0 as well.  
> 
> Many times my mouse just freezes, the keyboard still works, but the mouse 
> doesn't move.  If I switch consoles and then back it almost always fixes it.
>   If it doesn't work on the first switch then the second makes it work.  
> I've tried turning off gpm and that doesn't seem to help.  Does any one have
>  any suggestions?
> 
> ---
> Jon Schewe
> http://tcfreenet.org/~schewe
> schewe@tcfreenet.org
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