[techtalk] dead mouse

[David Merrill]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 03:48:10PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> I get behaviour like this using a KVM (Keyboard, Vidoe, Mouse) switch to
> share inputs between three boxes.  switching from X to console and back
> resets the mouse but maybe only because gpm runs for consoles and the
> switch to console invokes the gpm driver and the switch back to X
> reinvokes the X mouse driver (spouting nonsense now!).  I presume you
> restarted X for each mouse change?

Oh yes.

It seems to be working now. After I said it was working, it died
again, but the same procedure re-fixed it. We'll see how long it stays
working this time. ;-)

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