[CentOS] mouse issues in centos 4

[Mark Elam]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:23, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> 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.
> 
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Interesting... I will try to unload the modules for the cdrom and see
what happens next time.

Thanks!

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