mouse issues in centos 4

[barton.schaefer at gmail.com (Bart Schaefer)]

On 5/26/05, Mark Elam <melam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I often see random loss of the mouse cursor, which results in having to
> restart X.

Try restarting the console mouse services (/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm
restart).  I know this *shouldn't* have anything to do with X11, but
we had a RH9 box that would occasionally lose track of the mouse, and
restarting GPM would fix it on that machine.