From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 23:50:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17621 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:50:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17599 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:50:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA01073; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:49:36 GMT (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901112238.HAA25244@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:49:33 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Subject: Re: Sudden mouse death? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Christopher Masto Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Jan-99 Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > >>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 >> .. snip .. I get very similar events quite often on my laptop which has a PS/2 touchpad. The symptoms are essentially identical and moused is not involved, I've had the same kind of mouse lockup with and without moused, the system is more robust with moused and sometimes I can get the mouse back by restarting moused, more often it claims not to be installed. > I rarely hear this type of errors. > > It sounds like hardware failure. Power to the mouse may not be > supplied reliably. I have been assuming it was an apm related problem without much justification, presumably power management could produce similar effects to a dodgy power connection. > Any possibility that the connector or lead to the mouse may be faulty? Not in my case (I hope) it is built in to my laptop (although apm may be producing similar effects to power problems). Is there anything I can usefully instrument (I am running 3.0-RELEASE) and report on, I can expect several lockups a day. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Steve O'Hara-Smith Date: 12-Jan-99 Time: 19:14:45 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message