[olug] Debian forgets my mouse

[John Hobbs]

I'm sure you've probably tried this, but how about a reboot?  At work
we had a bunch of Mini-ITX boards that if the PS2 mouse got pulled
there was nothing to do but restart the machine and let it re-detect
it.  Never figured out if it was hardware related or what, but that's
what we did for a long time until we moved to USB boards.  If you
haven't tried a reboot, you might give it a go.

- John

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Mike Hostetler <hostetlerm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello -- longtime subscriber, seldom poster.
>
> I have a older box (PII 400!) running Debian.  I use the PS2 Aux for my
> mouse.   I had the mouse working fine in X, but then upgrade the kernel via
> "apt upgrade" and now I can't get the mouse to be recognized at all. The
> psmouse module is loaded, but no luck in getting it to move. I've used
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to reconfigure my X setttings but it asks
> nothing about the mouse.  Manually editing "/dev/psaux" or "/dev/input/mice"
> into the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file also doesn't work.  And I see nothing when
> doing "cat  /dev/psaux" and move the mouse.  Same as "cat /dev/input/mice"
>
> All the above was given after much googling and hair-pulling.  To me, my
> system doesn't know the mouse is there.  Anyone on how to get this to work?
>
> --
> Mike Hostetler
> http://mike.hostetlerhome.com/
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