[wplug] mouse dying?

[Rob Knapp]

> Lately my mouse has been randomly dying. X still runs fine but my 
> mouse cursor disappears. I have to restart gdm to get it working 
> again. So I'm wondering why this is happening and how to stop it and 
> if it does keep happening anyone know how to get the mouse working 
> again without having to restart X? 
> 

I used to (back in '99 or so) have a similar problem.  Actually I used to have _LOTS_ of problems with mice.  What usually got me out of it was turning off "RenderAccel" under the Screeb section of my XFree.conf or xorg.conf file.  That takes the drawing of the mouse pointer out the hands of your graphics card, and into the hands of your X server.

Not sure if it still works, but it might be worth a shot.



> The only thing I see in my logs is: 
> 
> (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" 
> (**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/psaux" 
> (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2" 
> (**) Option "CorePointer" 
> (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer 
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" 
> (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" 
> (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 
> (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 
> (**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 9 
> (**) Configured Mouse: Sensitivity: 1 
> 
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) 
> 
> (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded 
> (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) 
> (II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel 
> 
> And when I tried running xlock it failed saying in the logs: 
> 
> Oct 25 04:00:23 netrek xlock: xlock, could not grab pointer! (1) 
> Oct 25 04:00:23 netrek xlock: Stop: zu22, zu22, :0.0, 0m 2s 
> 
> I run Debian testing release and 2.6.18 kernel with X.Org version 
> 1:7.2-5 and GNOME2 desktop with fvwm2 window manager. 
> 
> My /etc/X11/xorg.conf has: 
> 
> Section "InputDevice" 
> Identifier "Configured Mouse" 
> Driver "mouse" 
> Option "CorePointer" 
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" 
> Option "Protocol" "PS/2" 
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" 
> EndSection 
> 
> Zach 
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