irritating problem...
Birju Prajapati
birju at nextmodels.com
Wed Oct 20 14:13:35 UTC 2004
Thanks a lot :-) I'll try that next time.
Paul Howarth wrote:
> Birju Prajapati wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
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