Re: USB optical mouse keeps dying - Solved - sort of

[Jan Morales <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Claude Jones wrote:
> Jan Morales wrote:
>
> > Claude Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Claude Jones wrote:
> > > | I have a MS optical USB mouse. After a time, once the screen
> > > | save has kicked in, the mouse dies. The light goes out, and
> > > | even tho the keyboard still works and returns the screen, the
> > > | mouse continues to sleep. Only unplugging it and plugging it
> > > | back in revives it. Does anyone know how to fix this? I have an
> > > | almost identically configured box at work and it doesn't happen
> > > | there. | | --
> > > | Claude Jones
> > > | Bluemont, VA, USA
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Claude Jones
> > > Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
> > > Leesburg, VA, USA
> >
> > So what is the sort-of solution?
> >
> > Jan
> Sorry about that. I hit the enter key prematurely and was in the process 
> of leaving. I did a lot of searching and found no solutions. A lot of 
> spcculation about lost USB configurations and mounts and such. I gave up 
> and plugged a USB>PS2 adapter in. Now it stays on.

This sounds a bit like the issue I reported, except without the KVM in 
my case. Were you seeing error messages similar to this in dmesg?

drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: input irq status -84 received

Maybe this isn't a KVM issue, but a USB mouse driver issue. My bug 
report is 150746 in bugzilla.

Jan