[CentOS] mouse issues in centos 4

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:23:23PM -0700, Mark Elam wrote:
> I often see random loss of the mouse cursor, which results in having to
> restart X.  (really pisses the engineers off)  I cannot seem to track
> down why this is happening.  Nothing in any logs give any clue to what
> is happening.   I thought it may have to do with VMware, as this is
> installed on 80% of these machines, and most of the time it happened
> when users were using Vmware.  But recently I have seen the problem on
> machines without VMware running or even installed.

I have seen this happening on other distros too. I tracked town 2
reasons:

1) Bugs on X11. Usually going to text mode and back to graphical solves it.
2) Some conflics with ide-cd/cdrom kernel modules. Again, unloading
   those modules will give your mouse back

It doesn't happen very often. Actually, I only saw it happening on 2
notebooks, so it might be related to some buggy chipset.

[]s

- -- 
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFClj4+pdyWzQ5b5ckRAgqaAJ0dLB6n+hYNy3GS83rb12VSfB8RkACgtGTn
p0/0tlYNfOTjbBPPVNVbNPQ=
=mYhy
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----