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From: hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Howard B Owen)
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Subject: Re: has anyone seen this ds3100 disease?
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Date: 5 Jul 90 23:01:00 GMT
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In article <13049@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
(George Robbins) writes:
>

> A few times a day, the mouse on our DS3100 will freeze, and neither mouse
> motion nor buttons do anything.  Changing mice doesn't accomplish anything
> except the cursor moves left about 1/2" each time you plug and unplug the
> mouse.

  It happens to me each time I reboot my DS3100. I first noticed the
problem after disconnecting the 
mouse while the system was running. Calls to DEC service resulted in a
couple of board and mouse swaps,
all to no avail. I finally discovered that remaking /dev/mouse, then
repeatedly killing the
server (Xmfb in my case) brought the mouse back to life. 

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