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#1 2009-03-15 12:58:34

Diospyros
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Registered: 2009-03-15
Posts: 57

Mouse freezes after switch from X to vc and back again

I installed Arch for the first time on a Dell 1420n laptop yesterday and I've been thrilled with it so far.
There's been just one rather annoying problem when I try to use the GUI... here's the scenario:

I start X with gnome, everything works fine.
I switch over to vc/1 (or whatever) and do some CLI stuff.
When I switch back to X (<Alt>F7), the mouse is frozen.  Won't move or click anything.

I went back to /var/log/Xorg.0.log and found the interesting part:

(EE) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Device has changed - disabling.

(this happens whenever I switch out and back)

Now I found out that I can do

modprobe -r psmouse
modprobe psmouse

and it works again, but it's really frustrating to have to do this everytime I switch out to a vc.

Are there any "permanent" solutions to this problem? (or ideas as to why X decides to randomly deactivate my mouse? tongue)

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks!

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#2 2009-03-21 02:18:06

Diospyros
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Registered: 2009-03-15
Posts: 57

Re: Mouse freezes after switch from X to vc and back again

Anybody at all?  sad

It seems that some people get this problem when they close the lid/suspend: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62229

Someone posted a fix that would do the "modprobe -r psmouse; modprobe psmouse" thing when the system wakes up; does anyone know if that is possible to do whever I switch to X from a vc?  That would solve my problem at least temporarily.

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#3 2009-03-31 02:03:46

Maverick1712
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From: Ottawa, Ontario
Registered: 2009-01-08
Posts: 7

Re: Mouse freezes after switch from X to vc and back again

BUMP. same issue for me.

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