Once in every so often boots I end up in X without a functioning mouse. A pointer is shown, but glued to the center of the screen. A reboot will fix it, but I have had this behavior for a few years now and still no clue what the origin of the problem is - dmesg reports as it does normally: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice killing and restarting X and/or gpm doesn't return control over the mouse. I have been storing dmesgs at failures: 2007-08-29 2007-09-15 2007-11-23 (I boot twice a day on average) As you can see, I had one recently. This time I also made a copy of my /proc and /sys directories. (I am guessing /proc was not really needed) maybe any info can still be extracted? Where can I look, what can I do to find the source of this problem? Is there anything that I should do to obtain more info when this occurs nexttime? Thanks Roel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html