[olug] Debian forgets my mouse

[Sam Tetherow]

Is the kernel module loaded (psaux or psmouse, can't remember which, its 
been a while since I last had a PS2 mouse)?

	Sam Tetherow
	Sandhills Wireless



Rob Townley wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Mike Hostetler
>> http://mike.hostetlerhome.com/
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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.
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