From: amann@iam.unibe.ch (Stephan Amann) Subject: Re: My mouse not responding Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 08:26:56 GMT
In article 12774@cs.ruu.nl, abosse@cs.ruu.nl (Arjan Bosse) writes:
>In <1892@tdat.teradata.COM> syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com (Sang Y. Yum) writes:
>
>>Hi, after installing xfree861.1 on my Linux box, I was able to
>>run X at 640x384 resolution.
>>
>>The problem is, when I turned on my machine yesterday afternoon,
>>my mouse suddenly stopped working. Nothing was changed from last
>>time I ran X windows.
>>
>>I checked /dev/mouse and ttyS0, which /dev/mouse is symbolicaly
>>linked to and looked fine.
>>
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>In my case startx does work. First it generates some crap, then a black&white
>raster (with mouse pointer 'X' which i can't move) and finally a blue screen
>with in the upper left corner a red xclock icon. After that the mouse pointer
>changes into one that's dragging a small window.....
>But then it hangs, i can't use the mouse at all, and the computer is
>completely stuck (only way to get out is using the reset button).
>
>I tried all types mice and all ttyS* but none works.
>Default i'm using Microsoft mouse and /dev/mouse -> /dev/ttyS0
>
>The only way for me to get this far is to choose the first standard 640x480
>resolution, and to set the Virtuals at 640 and 480 in Xconfig.
>
>Another point to memorize is that i've tried the mouse test program in
>/usr/X386/lib/X11/tst/mouse (or somewhere near), but that one didn't
>recognise my mouse too... :(
>
>Any suggestions to get the mouse working?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Arjan Bosse (abosse@cs.ruu.nl)
>--
>
I had the same problem, but I could find a trick, well er, a workaround,
not very elegant, but it works...
First time I 'startx', everything starts fine, but I can't move the mouse pointer.
I press <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<BS> to stop X, then I 'startx' again .... and it works!!!
Any suggestions for a more elegant startup procedure ??? Thanx.
Stephan.
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