[K12OSN] mouse frozen all else okay

[Gavin Chester]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 19:40 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> 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 :-) 

Nah, didn't work :-( :-(.  Sure like to find a way to restore the mouse
without killing X and having to restart my session all over.

Gavin

> 
> > 
> > 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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