[olug] Debian forgets my mouse

[Mike Hostetler]

Uh, yeah.  There is an HD that doesn't always spin up. It happens to be the
home drive, so the machine boots, but I can't easily log in. I should fix
that sometime.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>
wrote:

> I'm glad your machine came back up.  I've had machines that didn't come
> back from an 'overdue' restart.  (Usually something goes south in the HD).
>
> Happy mousing!
>
> Carl
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> A reboot isn't good enough, actually. Have you powered down the machine
> >> since this started happening? If a ps/2 mouse gets messed up, it usually
> >> doesn't start working again until a cold restart.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Adam gets the prize!  Actually, it was a combo of re-seeting the mouse
> and a
> > cold start.  The machine probably hasn't had a cold reboot in about two
> > years,  so it was overdue.
> >
> > I remembered that it's an optical PS2 mouse, which I think is quite rare.
>  I
> > picked it up at Menard's, of all places, about 4 years ago.
> >
>
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