Re: frequent reconnects of an usb mouse

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:55:20PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:34:00PM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > This is not happening if I use a different usb mouse.
> 
> I had quite a few mice break like that - usually the cable broke at the
> entry into the mouse itself. I sometimes openend one, cut the last few cm
> of the cable and soldered the (internal) connector again. Pretty simple and
> made them work.

This is a new one.

> Not sure if that is your problem, but should be easy to test by using
> the mouse temporarily on, say, windows. My mice were optical, so you could
> easily watch them light up again on reconnect.

This is an optical one too, but neither in the windows nor while i'm in
the bios i see this problem.

It maybe a problem with the usb chipset.

Bernd