On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:59:29 -0800 (PST) Jim Cunning wrote:

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dennis Tuchler wrote:

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I don't know whether this is a Ximian or a S.u.S.E 7.3 problem.

Occasionally, after booting up, my mouse goes to sleep and won't wake up until I cold reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't work in those cases.

What can I do to prevent this from recurring?

Since you're using the mouse, you're also probably running X. Have you tried just killing and restarting the X server. Try "ctrl-alt-backspace" to kill the current X server, which init should then restart. Maybe your mouse will reappear. It can't hurt, and if it works prevents a reboot.

Jim

Another thing to try is turning off gpm, general purpose mouse for the console. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}

jcunning@cts.com wrote:

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dennis Tuchler wrote:

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I don't know whether this is a Ximian or a S.u.S.E 7.3 problem.

Occasionally, after booting up, my mouse goes to sleep and won't wake up until I cold reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't work in those cases.

What can I do to prevent this from recurring?

Since you're using the mouse, you're also probably running X. Have you tried just killing and restarting the X server. Try "ctrl-alt-backspace" to kill the current X server, which init should then restart. Maybe your mouse will reappear. It can't hurt, and if it works prevents a reboot.

Jim

Look in the kernel docs under the power management section. There is a compile option that relates to this problem. JHS