On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 02:06 -0500, Text Motif wrote: > At least once a day my desktop freezes. I can see everything, and the > mouse moves. The mouse even does hover states over icons, but no > clicking. Clicking won't do anything. The interaction between the > mouse and X just stops. I have to switch to the keyboard, and > ultimately press control>alt>backspace, logging back in again to get > the mouse working. (It's a usb mouse: nothing special.) > This may not help, but.... Sometime back I had a similar problem with a Fedora installation - most likely F8 or F10, so a while ago. The PC in question is quite old, so has an optical mouse connected via a mini-DIN (PS/2) plug, and runs 24/7. Sometimes I'd try to login via its screen & keyboard. The mouse would have no effect - pointer wouldn't move, clicking did nothing,but moving it did cause its LED's brightness to change. Unplugging the mouse and plugging it in again made it immediately responsive. > This is a drag, because I have to use the keyboard to cycle through > all open programs to save all the open files before dumping the > interface to log back in again. > Try my trick - unplug and reconnect the mouse. Its not a real solution to the problem, but if it works it will at least avoid logging out. If you can work out how to reliably cause the problem, raise a bug report with Ubuntu. Martin
