MS Intellimice optical 'shutting down' anyone?

[Andre Costa]

On 10 Mar 2004 02:46:41 -0300
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2004, Andre Costa <acosta at ar.microlink.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > I've been experiencing lately some weird mouse behavior: all of a
> > sudden, mouse simply goes off, and even though X11 remains
> > responsive(keyboard works), it usually leaves me no option besides
> > killing X11 with CTRL+ALT+BKSP -- which often makes me lose some
> > work. Restarting X brings mouse back up again, as if nothing had
> > happened.
> 
> Arjan gave me this tip the other day, when I ran into a similar
> problem: Alt-F2, start xterm, run metacity --replace, and mouse
> buttons work again.  Not sure whether your problem is just with
> buttons, or with being able to use the mouse to move the pointer,
> select other apps, etc, but I thought I'd share the tip anyway.

Thks, any info might be valuable -- if not for me, at least for others.

Unfortunately, my problem is the worst one: mouse _really_ dies -- no
pointer, no buttons, no light (it's optical).

> It has saved me some work a number of times recently.  I suspect I do
> have some mouse hardware issue, that causes a very large number of
> events to be triggered at about the same time, getting metacity very
> confused.  Of course it shouldn't lose touch with reality just because
> of such an interactivity storm, but it looks like it does :-(

That sucks =( I still can't say exactly what triggers the problem here
on my box, but it does seem to come up earlier when I am doing some
heavy interaction with mouse, like playing UT2004 demo. Also, problem
doesn't seem to come up on windoze... =(

Best,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa