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

[David Gerard]

2008/7/13 Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr>:
> On Sunday 13 July 2008 20:28, David Gerard wrote:

>> Dunno if it's helpful - but on a previous Compaq 6710b laptop I had
>> running Kubuntu, the trackpad was playing up and spewing out rubbish -
>> so modprobe -r psmouse.ko followed by modprobe psmouse.ko on the Linux
>> driver worked fine to reset it without restarting anything else.

> Hi David. That looks promising on Debian based installs. I looked on my FC2
> install, psmouse.ko is not in the latest legacy kernel that I had. Rebooted
> the new machine into Fedora 8, and psmouse isn't there either. Looks like
> Fedora doesn't have that module built into the kernel.


Note that I keep an xconsole running at all times anyway, and that
told me which module the bad output from the mouse was affecting, so I
knew which one to try reloading.


- d.