We use VNC that our users can access a LINUX cluster which is running
under RH 9. The viewers are running either under WINDOWS 98/NT/XP or
different distributions of LINUX (RH, Debian, SUSE). Mostly PS/2 mouse
device is used.
Sporadically mouse cursor is dead. You can move and see the mouse
pointer, but it has no effect. I tried to analyze the problem, but could
not find any error message neither in vnclog nor other system logs.
Restart the viewer doesn't help. It seems to happen always when the load
of the machine where Xvnc is running becomes rather high. There is no
possibility to recover such sessions, you have to stop Xvnc and restart
it.
Any idea to find the reason for this problem or better to solve the
problem?
Thanks in advance
Joachim Benz
Kassel University
Faculty of Ecological Agricultural Sciences (FB 11)
Nordbahnhofstr. 1a
D-37213 Witzenhausen
(Germany)
Phone: (+49)-5542-98-1560
Fax: (+49)-5542-98-1556
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:00, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
> And my two cents too: we're also using optical mice in my company but I have
> never encountered any problem with VNC together with screen saver. But I have to
> add a few remarks:
> * most of them are plugged as PS/2 device (even if USB is available).
> * whether they are plugged as PS/2 or USB, I don't install any driver provided for
> them. I just use default driver installed automatically by the system. Sure, maybe
> some extra buttons might not be working in this case, but since my colleagues don't
> care (they don't see the interest to use all five fingers!), I don't care either.
> * in Win2000, I can't find any default options within screen-saver concerning mouse.
>
> HTH
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Dietmar.Friesch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Envoyi : mardi 24 fivrier 2004 11:17
> > @ : Seak, Teng-Fong; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Objet : RE: Mouse cursor no longer working! Why?
> >
> > Just my two cents: most of the optical mobile mice I know turn off to
> > economise on power and it indispensibly requires THEIR PYSICAL MOTION or a
> > KEYCLICK to reactivate them. If its a notebook-pc with touchpad or other it
> > may be helpful to keep this explicitly active or so; maybe the driver of
> > such mice may also allow to turn off drowsyness.
> > Otherwise I'm running such somnolent wireless optical mouse on USB but
> > apparently the transmitter keeps the PC thinking that there's a mouse
> > connected also the mouse has fallen asleep awaiting a keyclick to wake up.
> > This keeps the mouse pointer visible when vincing into the pc.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of Seak, Teng-Fong
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:51 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Mouse cursor no longer working! Why?
> >
> > Is that you who have a USB mouse? So, you have tried plugging it
> > using PS2 but that doesn't help, right?
> >
> > > -----Message d'origine-----
> > > De : John E. Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Envoyi : mardi 24 fivrier 2004 02:58
> > > @ : Gary Roush; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Objet : Re: Mouse cursor no longer working! Why?
> > >
> > > HA! YOU'VE got the dead mouse too, huh?
> > >
> > > What I saw on MINE was that my home mouse was asleep and wouldn't wake up.
> > > If I called home and someone "bumped" the mouse for me to wake it up,
> > > everything would work.
> > >
> > > Don't know if you have the same situation, but worth a try.
> > >
> > > JP
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Gary Roush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 8:22 PM
> > > Subject: Mouse cursor no longer working! Why?
> > >
> > >
> > > > I have used VNC many times to help my friends fix problems on their
> > > > computers. Saves me a trip. Just recently today for the first time, I
> > > > can get into the other computer, but the mouse cursor is not responding.
> > I
> > > > can see the cursor dot moving, but clicking it anywhere on the remote
> > > > computer is not doing anything or typing anything isn't working either.
> > I
> > > > am using the same computer and my friend using the same computer as we
> > > > always have. What's happened? Is there something I can do to fix this
> > or
> > > > find so the problem goes away?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Gary
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