Lennart Augustsson writes:
> I'm very interested in the circumstances involved in this,
> since I've never had a mouse go dead myself.
> 
> Are there any log messages?
> 
> Does switching virtual consoles help?

It only happened that once.  My snap reaction was to see if the mouse
had just died by power cycling it.  If it happens again I'll try
switching consoles.

-wolfgang