How to re-detect mouse from command line

James McDonald james
Wed Aug 18 05:33:38 PDT 2004


Kurt Wall wrote:

>>I have a PS2 mouse that sometimes stops working on my Redhat FC1 box.
>>
>>In order to get the mouse back I CTRL+ALT+BS and kill X which I would
>>rather not do. Is there anyway of simply runing a command from a terminal
>>to get it to redetect?
>>    
>>
>
>Can you just flip over to a VC and then back to X?
>
>Kurt

Thanks for this I lost my mouse tonight and yes switching to a VC and 
back to X fixed my mouse...




More information about the Linux-users mailing list