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To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
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Subject: Re: Sudden mouse death? 
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 07:38:03 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>This is the second time I've had this happen, so maybe it's not a
>complete fluke.  I walked away from my computer for a while, and when
>I came back, my mouse didn't work.  I'm running X using sysmouse and a
[...]
>This time, moused wouldn't restart:
>moused: Unable to open /dev/psm0: Input/output error
>
>I tried again:
>moused: Unable to open /dev/psm0: Device not configured
[...]
>The following has appeared in dmesg output:
>
>psm0: failed to disable the device (psmclose).
>psm0: failed to get status (psmclose).
>psm0: failed to enable the device (doopen).

I rarely hear this type of errors.

It sounds like hardware failure.  Power to the mouse may not be
supplied reliably.

Any possibility that the connector or lead to the mouse may be faulty?

Kazu


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