Wow, talk about a quick response. My thanks to all who responsed,
but the easiest remedy was provided by Grant Ward who said their 3000/300
started having the same problem recently. To fix it, just unplug the mouse
and plug it back in. Straight-forward, simple and it works.
Cheers,
Ryan.
At 09:12 20/12/2000 +0800, Ryan McConigley wrote:
> We have an ancient DEC 3000 machine here and as of the last two
> weeks or so, the mouse has been locking up about every second day. In
> the message log the following message appears -
>
> Dec 19 16:35:56 jst vmunix: ws: Tablet pointer unknown
>
> and the only way we have found to fix the problem is a reboot
> which seems a little drastic. So far, every test I have carried out on
> the mouse says teh mouse is ok and I have even swapped it with another
> machine's mouse and keyboard, but that didn't help much. I guess I'm
> looking at either a hardware fault somewhere on the motherboard or a OS issue.
>
> What I was hoping was someone knows of some way to either
> reinitialise or restart the "tablet pointer". I have no idea is such a
> thing even exists on the DECs, so I'm acting blind. I've had a look
> through the system and couldn't find anything, so I'm deferring it to my
> learnered collegues to see if anyone has any wonderful solutions.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan.
>
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> ` \;
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> me" ;_\
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