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From: mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu (Matt Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mouse stopped working
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Date: 15 Dec 90 06:16:06 GMT
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Thanks to everyone who answered my request for help regarding 
the mouse.

Apparently, the problem was caused by corruption in the file 
system (it is not at all an impossibility that I am misusing 
the term). Anyway, following someone's suggestion, I did a 
fsck on the disk and, after rebooting (and running fsck again 
and rebooting) everything worked fine. I guess the /etc/ttys 
and /etc/remote files had nothing to do with the problem 
whatsoever.

Considering this is the second problem I've had in about as 
many days, I guess I won't be trying to do anything involving 
hardware changes until the weekend is over, so there'll at 
least be a chance that I can reach someone by phone. Who 
knows? I might end up shutting down the neighborhood if I try 
to do something complex like hooking up a printer :-).

Matt Wu
mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu