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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: John Grimmett <john@vampire.uunet.ca>
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Subject: Re: Mouse stops working upon exiting X
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> After installing the 2.1 package, everything works fine except that
> when I exit from my xterm in X and the screen resets and presents the
> xdm login, the mouse pointer resets to the center of the screen and
> the mouse response dies.

That's no good. :(

> This behaviour is consistent whether the mouse is on ttyd0 or ttyd1.
> Has anyone seen this problem?  Should my mouse be defined to use
> /dev/cuaa0 instead of ttyd0?

Nope, here's what I'm using.

Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "Logitech"
    Device      "/dev/ttyd0"

Is it possible that your mouse is 'locking' up?  Is your serial line
setup to use clocal?  Are you doing anything within /etc/rc.serial?


Nate