Subject: Re: USB mouse dies
To: Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 03/04/2005 14:15:37
In message <200503041650.LAA20836@anduin.eldar.org>, Brad Spencer writes:
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>   Two of my machines have USB mice.  On occasion, and without apparent 
>   cause, the system will stop seeing any mouse events.  Usually, 
>   unplugging the mouse and reconnecting it will solve the problem; 
>   sometimes, though, I have to reboot.  Any suggestions on the cause (or 
>   a fix)?  
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>   I'm running -current with xorg on new Dell Dimension 8400s, with ITAC 
>   Systems Mouse-Traks.
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>		   --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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>I see this all the time on my Toshiba notebook when there is large amounts
>of LAN activity on the wi device.  Other ethernet devices do not seem to
>trigger the problem as often, or at all.

Hmm -- both of the machines this happens to have bge GigE cards.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb