Re: USB mouse "hang" with 2.5.75

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 16:12:45 EST


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:59:17PM -0700, crozierm@consumption.net wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm experiencing odd USB mouse behaviour with 2.5.75 & 2.6.0-test1. Those
> are the only 2.5.x flavors I've used on this particular computer, so I
> don't know if this is something new.

Does the same thing happen on 2.4.21?

> While using the mouse normally, it will suddenly stop responding. If I
> cat /dev/input/mice and wiggle the mouse, nothing is returned. No
> extra debug messages appear in the syslog until I unplug the mouse and
> plug it back it, at which point everything works normally. I can't
> find specific steps to reproduce it, but with persistent use I can
> usually get it to hang up within a minute or two.

Can you enable CONFIG_USB_DEBUG?

> Also, if I leave XFree86 and go to the console, then switch back to
> XFree86, the mouse is restored. Because of this I thought it must be X,
> but this has never happened with 2.4.x.

Hm, yeah, this looks like an X issue :)

Unless by enabling that config option, you get some information
otherwise...

thanks,

greg k-h
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