Re: [SLE] Occasional Mouse Failure

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Dennis Tuchler wrote:

I use S.u.S.E. 7.3. Sometimes, after booting up, the mouse movements are not recorded on the screen. That is, when the X screen appears shortly before ximian-gnome starts up, the cursor does not respond to the mouse movement. Nor does it respond when I am asked to put in my user name and password.

I reboot, and the problem is resolved. Is there any way I can fiddle here or there to prevent this from happening?

Before you use such drastic measures as rebooting, you should try killing and restarting the X server. I've had occasional instances where the mouse cursor is absent at X server startup. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace usually brings it back. It's never been necessary to reboot the whole system. Jim