On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:06:27PM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote: > 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? does cat /dev/input/mice work (i.e. shows weird characters)? regards, Andre - 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
