On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:15:45 -0500 fred smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:08:50AM -0300, Andre Costa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been experiencing lately some weird mouse behavior: all of a > > sudden, mouse simply goes off, and even though X11 remains > > responsive(keyboard works), it usually leaves me no option besides > > killing X11 with CTRL+ALT+BKSP -- which often makes me lose some > > work. Restarting X brings mouse back up again, as if nothing had > > happened. > > Is this a USB mouse? It is a USB mouse, but I am using it as a PS/2 mouse. Sorry for not making it clear before. > I'm using a MS optical mouse on the USB port and a small number of > times it has just quit working. (Note: I'm still using it on RH72, not > FC1) AFter some experimentation I found that I could run: > > (/usr/local/bin/fixmouse) > #!/bin/sh > echo You must be root to do this\! > rmmod usb-uhci > modprobe usb-uhci > > and the mouse would come back to life. Cool. This won't help on my case, but it's definitely valuable info. > It tends to happen only when I'm playing some games (shoot-em-ups, > e.g.) that requite a LOT of mouse activity. On my case, I haven't been able to detect a pattern. It does seem to happen more frequently when mouse activity is intense (like playing UT2004 demo), but it happened many times while I was doing usual desktop interaction. Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
