[Linux-disciples] Keyboard and mouse cut out

[Adam Kessel]

Are they USB or PS/2 devices?

Have you tried a more recent kernel? It would be worth trying with 2.4.22
and/or 2.6.0test5.

Also, do you see any messages in 'dmesg' or /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or
syslog for that matter) around the time that the event occurs?

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:40:54PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Every now and again, my mouse will inexplicably stop working under Gnome.
> I can still use the keyboard, so I cut over to one of my virtual
> terminals and restart the gdm service. Sometimes that works, sometimes
> not. Sometimes, like today, when gdm restarts the *keyboard* doesn't work
> either. I have to reboot. The keyboard clearly works upon rebooting,
> because I can scroll through the grub boot menu. The keyboard *doesn't*
> work, however, once I get to the gdm login prompt. The mouse still
> doesn't work, either. I reboot again. Same deal. I reboot again, and
> finally everything - mouse and keyboard - works. The problem disappears
> for another few weeks.
> 
> That's where I am right now. Can anyone explain to me
> 
> a) why three reboots would do the trick, but not one
> b) why the keyboard and/or mouse fail spontaneously in the middle of gdm,
> and
> c) whether there was a better way for me to fix the problem than
> rebooting?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Steve
> 
> -- 
> ``And my ex-boyfriend can't tell me i've sold out.
>   Because he's in a cult.
>   And he's not allowed to talk to me."
>  -Dar Williams, "The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis
>   of a Co-ed"
> 
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