[olug] Debian forgets my mouse

[Rob Townley]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Mike Hostetler <hostetlerm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'll second JohnH's idea for a reboot - PS/2 hot-plugging is flaky and
> > prone
> > to hardware errors. :-(
> >
>
> I didn't reboot, since that  usually only works with Windows ;).  But I
> just
> tried it and, alas, that didn't work this time.
>
>
> >
> > If you can't do that, or it doesn't work, what happens if you run "cat
> > /dev/psaux" and then move the mouse?  When you do that as root you will
> get
> > a lot of jibberish each time the mouse is moved.
>
>
> > If you don't get the output, then it could be the drive (or mouse or PS/2
> > port or...).  Try running the same test command on the various
> /dev/input/*
> > devices (mice, mouse0, mouse1,...) and see if any of those work.
> >
>
> Nothing from cat /dev/psaux and cat /dev/input/mice.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
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As someone who works with many 400MhZ machines, i had to try to help out as
much as possible with a few thoughts.  But pretty much only use CentOS
unless i am using Knoppix...

Does your mouse work in the CTRL-ALT-Fx tty consoles?  After installing this
functionality on a redhat derivative, the mouse became flaky.

You sure you were root when trying to read output from /dev/psaux?

Boot with any live cd to verify it works.