Re: [LUG] Mouse not Working

[Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have given up on Mandrakelinux, as I remarked when making a query to their 
> support staff they are a wonderfull argument for windows.  Complete waste of 
> 60 whatever!

I always liked Mandrake.  I've not used it for a while now, though...

> However got a copy of Fedora 4, and my old mouse problem has reappeared.  
> (Indeed at one stage I found the message "Failed to enable mouse on isa 
> 0060/serio1").  Basically the mouse just does not work, one must keep on 
> rebooting until it does.

Running Debian Sid, I also get that message sometimes.  However, I know 
exactly when I get it... I have a manual KVM switch, and if I leave my 
DebSid machine to boot whilst I am using the mouse on another system, 
then the mouse fails to initialise on the Sid machine.

I have found that, from a console, the following tends to reinitialise 
the mouse, but for some reason the mouse then feels "slow" and 
cumbersome to use:

From a console, as root, type: cat /dev/psaux
Then waggle the mouse around a bit until you see some weird and 
wonderful characters being printed to screen.  The mouse should (in my 
experience, anyway) initialise after this.

Grant.

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