mouse stops after a bit at black screen?

[lugoteehalt]

Since installing Debian Sarge the mouse works for a while at the black screen but when I switch back from X, sometimes - not always, the mouse has dissapeared. Can't work out what prompts this. Mouse allright in X.

Typing 'gpm &' as root has no effect. Sorry to be vaugh but I *think* gpm has stopped - not at computer at moment. Installed a module called mouse or somethinglike but it did not fix problem. Thanks any help.

[lugoteehalt]

Well I'm a knoledgeable party lugoteehalt and I know the answer:

The mouse stops at the black screen after the laptop has been put into suspend mode, with Fn+suspend, I'll be bound. This stops the general purpose mouse daemon gpm, acording to ps and top. Get it started again with "/etc/init.d/gpm restart".

But, mysteriously, you have to enter this command twice.

February is a cold month and the red, red robin comes a tap, tap, tappin at the window pane....