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From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com>
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Subject: Re: mouse hanging
In-Reply-To: <19990202120316.61053@aahz.jf.intel.com> from Alan Batie at "Feb 2, 99 12:03:16 pm"
To: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:39:34 -0600 (CST)
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Alan Batie said:

> Intermittently, I find that my ps2 mouse just stops responding.
> I do the Ctrl-Alt-Bksp die-damn-you-die and restart X and everything is
> fine again.  Needless to say, blowing away the plethora of windows I have
> open does not leave me a happy camper.  Any ideas?
> 
> FreeBSD 2.2.2-Release, XFree86 3.3 (or at least xdpyinfo reports Vender
> Version 3300)

I have a machine that does something like that.  I haven't spent much
time with it, but switching to another virtual console (with
ALT-CTRL-F1) and then back to X (probably with ALT-CTRL-F4) usually
revives the mouse.  

> Thanks...
> 
> -- 
> Alan Batie                     ------        What goes up, must come down.
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