On Thu, May 26, 2005 9:07 am, Botond Kardos said: > Hi, > I have a DELL Optiplex GX260 with FC3 and kernel 2.6.11-1.14. My > mouse (standard Dell USB->PS/2 mouse) sometimes stops responding and I > have to press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7 to make it work again. This > behavior is quite rare normally except during Unreal Tournament where it > is very frequent (about twice in a minute) and very irritating. I've > rebuilt the stock kernel with preemption but there was no difference. Of > course there's nothing in /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Does > somebody has an idea what can cause this? I have the same problem on occasion with a Dell SC420. Interestingly, it doesn't occur when I use the ports on the front of my server. Worth a shot if your Optiplex has the same. -- Regards, Matt Florido
Well, plugging the mouse into a different slot helps a lot. Especially when it doesn't share the IRQ with the video card (looking at /proc/interrupts may help to see shared IRQs). But it doesn't solve the problem.
The ultimate solution is to downgrade to any of the stock 2.6.9 kernels. Kernels 2.6.10-1.766 and 2.6.11-1.14 lose the mouse occasionally.
Cheers,
Botond
