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I've noticed in the past few weeks that my mouse has been locking up at odd times.  In the middle of a cut-and-paste it will just stop tracking and die.  Or scrolling across my X display, it will drop dead.  I've been able to revive it by killing and restarting gpm, but this is no longer working.  Even cold boots have not revived the mouse.

I've recompiled kernels 2.0.30 and 2.0.28 with psaux hardcoded and as a module.  Neither tactic works anymore.  The hardcoded kernels don't print any messages about psaux found or not found; 'cat /proc/devices' didn't list psaux at all.  The modularized kernels refuse to load psaux.o, but all the other modules work fine.

I'm going to take my laptop to work with me tomorrow to try some other mice.  I have a suspicion about where my problem may lie, but I'd rather keep that to myself for the moment.  Meanwhile, if anyone as any suggestions, please let me know.

Hardware:
NEC UltraLite Versa
Mouse Logitech Trackman Voyager

Software:
Linux kernel 2.0.30
gpm 1.12
modutils 2.0.0
libc 5.4.23
gcc 2.7.2.1

Thanks for your attention,
Ted.

: I've noticed in the past few weeks that my mouse has been locking up at odd times.  In the middle of a cut-and-paste it will just stop tracking and die.  Or scrolling across my X display, it will drop dead.  I've been able to revive it by killing and restarting gpm, but this is no longer working.  Even cold boots have not revived the mouse.

: I've recompiled kernels 2.0.30 and 2.0.28 with psaux hardcoded and as a module.  Neither tactic works anymore.  The hardcoded kernels don't print any messages about psaux found or not found; 'cat /proc/devices' didn't list psaux at all.  The modularized kernels refuse to load psaux.o, but all the other modules work fine.

: I'm going to take my laptop to work with me tomorrow to try some other mice.  I have a suspicion about where my problem may lie, but I'd rather keep that to myself for the moment.  Meanwhile, if anyone as any suggestions, please let me know.

        I think it is a problem with the PCMCIA controller (or the
        device modules) touching IRQ 12, which is reserved for the
        psaux mouse.

        In the PCMCIA-FAQ, they suggest that you add this line

                exclude irq 12

        in the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file.    

: Hardware:
: NEC UltraLite Versa
: Mouse Logitech Trackman Voyager

: Software:
: Linux kernel 2.0.30
: gpm 1.12
: modutils 2.0.0
: libc 5.4.23
: gcc 2.7.2.1

: Thanks for your attention,
: Ted.

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Yoonsuck Choe

I may have found a ps2 mouse bug also. I use a Logitech Trackman.

Dosemu hangs when I use a mouse in it and switch back and forth between
virtual consoles. Then I must push the reset button. It happens every time!

I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else has fixed this, or at least if
anyone else can duplicate it. Here's the configuration that hangs:

Dosemu 0.66.3
Logitech Trackman Marble mouse on the ps/2 port
Debian Linux 2.0.30
In /etc/dosemu/conf

   mouse { ps2 device /dev/psaux internaldriver emulate3buttons }

   keyboard {  layout us  keybint on  rawkeyboard on }

Not running gpm or any X Windows didn't fix it, so the bug isn't there. I also
tried running kbd_mode -a in a script after calling dosemu and as a root cron
process every minute. Neither worked. I'm relucatant to turn rawkeyboard off
because some of my aplications needs it.

Here's how I hang DOSEMU so that the reset button must be pressed:

1.) Use Alt-Ctl-F<n2> to go to another virtual console.
2.) login
3.) Run dosemu and a DOS application that uses the mouse such as
    Microsoft's "help".
4.) Use Alt-Ctl-F<n1> to go back to your original virtual console.
5.) Use Alt-Ctl-F<n2> to toggle back to the <n2> virtual console.
6.) The keyboard and mouse should be hung. Alt-Ctl-F? won't work.

I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else has fixed this, or at least if
anyone else can duplicate it.
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