Mouse pointer locked up. Anyway to reset mouse while Xserver is running?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:36:09PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> It does appear that when the mouse pointer locks up on these mice, it needs a 
> complete reset, like remove the power from the mouse, then restore it.
> 
> Question:
> 
> Any suggestions as to possible command line incantations that will reset the 
> mouse, while X is up and running?

No. The max you can do on the X side of things is to disable the device (check
out XChangeDeviceControl). But this doesn't disable the physical device, it
merely stops event delivery.

Cheers,
  Peter