Yu Yi wrote: > hi, I installed a fedora 5 on the notebook (Micro star S260-1758DL), the usb > mouse crashed shortly after starting system. At the beginning it still works > fine, but just for several minitues, I guess it shuts down if I stop using it a > little while. I checked the status of usb ports before and after crashing by > using "dmesg | grep -i usb", there is no difference. Does anybody know how to > solve it? What happens if you unplug the mouse and plug it back in again? If you open a terminal window, su to root, and run tail -f /var/log/messages and keep it open, do you see any messages appearing when the mouse stops working? Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | "Just for once, I wish we would encounter an @westexe.demon.co.uk | alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets..." | -- The Brigadier, 'Doctor Who'