I think I get something similiar I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Alt-F7 and it
starts to work again..

Dave.

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Peter Hardy wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 14:11, Taryn East wrote:
> > Ok, so at work we're running red hat (shrike), and I have a fairly
> > standard, cheapo mouse - which is probably half my trouble...
> >
> > but the thing keeps dieing!
> *snip*
> > Mouse driver being used:
> > generic PS/2 wheel mouse
> >
> > "Green Mile" script:
> > su -c "/etc/init.d/gpm restart"
>
> Have you tried rejigging X to use its own PS/2 mouse driver and
> disabling gpm altogether? It just sounds like gpm is having problems,
> and I tend not to trust it too much anyway (bad experiences trying to
> use gpm with USB mice..)
>
>

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