On Feb 7, 2008 12:23 PM, Hilco Wijbenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a USB mouse which likes to freeze up every now and then. > Whenever I don't use my box for a little while (not necessarily long > enough for the screen saver to kick in) and then touch the mouse, it > will freeze right away or within a few seconds. Leaving X and starting > X again doesn't fix the problem: I have to actually reboot. > The only "solution" I have found is to make sure I use the keyboard to > "wake up" the system. If I touch a key and wait a few seconds (that's > important; if I use the mouse too fast it may still freeze up), I can > safely use the mouse again without any trouble. > So it looks like the USB mouse is going to sleep after a short period > of inactivity and then refuses to wake up ... unless I use the > keyboard first. There's a "USB selective suspend/resume and wakeup" in > the kernel which I have made sure to deselect but that doesn't fix the > problem.
It looks like a hardware problem: have you tried a variety of mouses ? Have you tried plugging onto all your USB ports ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
