From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 13 00:12:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22417 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22381 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:11:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:DV4p5VTVcYAOJGzVaqR+CCeOWVEFM+Aq@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA12279; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:11:15 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id RAA28346; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:13:42 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199901130813.RAA28346@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Christopher Masto , yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Sudden mouse death? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:49:33 GMT." References: Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:13:41 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>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 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. Do you have the apm driver enabled? If so please try the following options in your kernel config file. options PSM_HOOKAPM You may also try the following option together with the above. options PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND See the man page for psm(4) for details. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message