[K12OSN] mouse frozen all else okay

[Gavin Chester]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 12:22 -0400, Jason Straw wrote:
> It actually seems to be a bug in fedora core 3/4.  They moved to 4K
> kernel stacks (which I think is the cause of most of these problems).
> 
> Jason

That's depressing :-(  

I repeated the conditions today and sure enough me playing frozen-bubble
while the kids played supertux brought this old 450MHz PII to its knees
and I had a frozen mouse and "veryniced" frozen-bubble unresponsive on
my screen.  Had to kill X to get the mouse back because sadly your
suggestion was not effective, Tim (see below).  However, while
researching the matter I came across this line:

	gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 (running as root)

If I gave that a shot at a terminal I wonder if I'd get my mouse back?
I'll let you know, next time I "reproduce" the bug :-) 

> 
> Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 12:12 -0400, Timothy Legge wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>With my KVM I can some times regain control of the
> >>mouse by <Alt>+<Ctrl>+<F1> to get to the console and
> >><Alt>+<F7> to return to X.
> >>
> >>Not ideal and it doesn't always work for me...
> >>
> >>Tim
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Okay - the ol' YMMV :-)  Thanks for the quick response, and interesting
> >to see it happens to others.  I hadn't thought of trying that.  Next
> >time it happens I give that a try.  In the meantime if anyone has _the_
> >definitive mouse-restart command I'll add that to my stable of tricks,
> >too ...
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>--- Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Question:
> >>>Is there a simple command to restart a mouse - as in
> >>>doing a
> >>>"/dev/mouse/service restart" type of thing, or
> >>>whatever?  
> >>>
> >>>Background detail:
> >>>It's a PS/2 mouse, on k12ltsp 4.2.0 using Xfce4
> >>>desktop.  Story is, I
> >>>run a small setup with just a couple of clients at
> >>>the moment with my
> >>>server doubling duty as a workstation.  Sometimes, I
> >>>might be playing a
> >>>game and it gets "veryniced" because combined weight
> >>>of all apps bring
> >>>the CPU to its  knees.  At this point I not only
> >>>have to go to a
> >>>terminal to kill the game because I've lost control
> >>>of it, but I lose
> >>>control of my mouse in the process.  When I have a
> >>>frozen mouse the
> >>>keyboard and system is okay.  Killing and restarting
> >>>X does it, but I
> >>>don't always enjoy doing that while I have lots of
> >>>things happening.
> >>>Google was not my friend in looking for answers to
> >>>this problem :-(
> >>>-- 
> >>>Regards, 
> >>>        Gavin Chester 
> >>>
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