[H-GEN] newbie help

[Christopher Biggs]

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Sarah Hollings <sez at powerup.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> 3: Periodic mouse problems.  Occasionally on boot-up, I have no mouse. 
> I am *certain* the previous shutdown was OK, and can't fathom what's
> causing it.

Did you run MS-Windows in between?  On one of my dual-boot systems, MS
Windows does something to the mouse that requires a power-down to get
the mouse working under Linux again.

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