irritating problem...

[Birju Prajapati]

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.
>