PS/2 Mice and keyboards [ was Re: [ale] Re: your mail ]

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Mike Fletcher wrote:
> 
>         I've got a wireless Logitech mouse that sometimes goes south.
> Usually switching to a console and stoppping and restarting gpm makes
> everything start working again (including X).

As I understand the purpose of gpm, it should 'help' this situation with
X as gpm enables your vga mouse.  The only references I've ever heard
that included gpm and X indicated that gpm might cause problems with
your mouse under X.  I don't think stopping and starting gpm is really
helping this situation, I suspect it's the switching consoles.

I think that with the serial mouse problem, it's a software thing,
whereas with the ps2, it's hardware.   As I've been in this situation a
few times in the past, I don't believe that you'll be able to bring a
ps2 mouse back to life without a reboot.

> 
>         NT on the other hand . . . "How many times did you want to
> reboot today?" :)
> 
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