On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 14:42 +0000, Tiscali Gary D Chance wrote:
Hi!
I have a randomly occurring problem on my suse 9.2 (fully patched via YOU and upgraded to KDE 3.3.2 via yast/supplementary updates).
What happens is that my mouse cursor disappears sometimes, and the system stops responding to any mouse events. It happens rather rarely and on random, so I can not reproduce this, nor to guess about possible causes. Other than this, system works stably and reliably, with long uptimes.
When I restart X, all goes fine again. Mouse cursor shows up and everything works as normal. But, I use my suse as a desktop/office machine and it is very annoying when you have to close and restart everything in the middle of your work...
Is this seen by other members of the list? Are there possible explanations or solutions, maybe?
I hope at least that there might be some kind of workaround (like restarting some process, initiating system to scan and discover the mouse again or such...), but was not able to find anything useful on my own...
Any kind of help, please...
Reply:
I have the same kind of problem but not exactly. I haven't pursued it yet because in my case it might be hardware or software, and I can work around it as follows:
My cursor locks at sporadic intervals, but the system continues to operate (clock, keyboard, etc). I use Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the logout dialogue box and hit return since the "Logout" button is highlighted. This saves everything.
I then logout completely since startx will not restore the mouse operation at this point. I need to logon as root to shutdown, reboot and then all is fine for logging in again with everything being restored automatically including a working mouse.
I'm not sure this will help you if you cannot use Ctrl-Alt-Del to get out of your session. The mouse problem might be software and similar. Like you it does not happen very often, and I cannot identify any pattern. Until now I've lived with it.
Gary
I am pretty sure that it is not hardware. It never happened with suse9.1 and WinXP (I am not quite positive, but it might be that it even worked OK with 9.2 before yast updates). As far as I can see, my case is different from yours in this: I do not have to shutdown/reboot - it' enough just to restart X session...Also, when I dio ctrl-alt-del my screen locks and it's not possible to do any further or backward action. I can not use arrow keys to switch the buttons, or esc to go back. I *must* restart my X with ctrl-alt-backspace...It appears to be the only key combination that works once after I do ctrl-alt-del... I still wait for some magic recipe from members of this list... ;-) cikasole