How to get scroll mouse working again?

[Luis Mondesi]

On Jan 11, 2008 7:23 PM, Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I am running Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 and have just had the problem
> that my scroll mouse will not scroll in Firefox or Thunderbird.
> Normally it scrolls fine.
>
> I have tried various methods of getting the scroll working again including
> /etc/init.d/gpm restart
> and
> logging out of KDE and restarting it
> and
> checking that there were no changes in /etc/X11/xorg.conf by comparing
> it to a backup copy made over 2 months ago.
>
> The only thing that finally worked was to restart (cold boot) the
> computer.
>
> Is there any way to get the scroll mouse working again without a cold
> boot?
>

cross-posting is considered "rude". see netiquette. I removed the kde*
mailing lists from my reply.

you almost NEVER need to reboot a Linux/UNIX system. in this case,
restarting X is just fine. And you could've done any of these:

- /etc/init.d/kdm restart
- CTRL+ALT+Backspace (kills X)
- killall -9 X
- pkill -9 X
- sudo telinit 1; # then exit or CTRL-D to go back to runlevel 2 or whatever
your default is
...

you get the idea?

the only times you need to reboot are:

1. a new kernel
2. kernel panic
3. a new third-party driver (especially nvidia and ATI drivers)
4. other computer freezes (hardware related usually, because Linux NEVER
freezes :-P)

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