[plug] USB mouse stops responding

[Trent Lloyd]

At 09:13 PM 10/05/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>One of our coworkers has just switched to Debian on
>his laptop (woody). It's a Toshiba Portege 7020CT. It
>has a Swann mouse (one of those tiny things) connected
>to the USB port, but the kernel seems to recognise it
>as a PS/2 device (/dev/psaux), so it works fine in
>conjunction with the builtin trackpoint.
>
>Problem is, sometimes the USB mouse stops working in X
>(trackpoint is still fine). Restarting X (ie. logging
>out and back in) always fixes it, but it's annoying if
>he's in the middle of something...
>
>It seems to be vaguely related to sleep mode, so it
>may be a BIOS setting but I don't see anything
>helpful. We're not running gpm due to the gpm+XFree4
>conflict, so we can't just restart gpm. (Debian bug
>#131176; does anyone know if it's an upstream problem,
>and what's being done to fix it?)

what is wrong with
gpm setup, /dev/input/mice (usb mouse)
type imps2
Repeat Type: msc

X:
Device: /dev/gpmdata
Type: MouseSystems

works fine for me on X4.1.0 Debian Woody and GPM

>Any ideas?
>
>TIA
>Andrew
>
>
>=====
>"One Architecture, One OS" also translates as "One Egg, One Basket".
>
>http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger
>- A great way to communicate long-distance for FREE!