I have a USB mouse which likes to freeze up every now and then. Whenever I don't use my box for a little while (not necessarily long enough for the screen saver to kick in) and then touch the mouse, it will freeze right away or within a few seconds. Leaving X and starting X again doesn't fix the problem: I have to actually reboot.
The only "solution" I have found is to make sure I use the keyboard to "wake up" the system. If I touch a key and wait a few seconds (that's important; if I use the mouse too fast it may still freeze up), I can safely use the mouse again without any trouble. So it looks like the USB mouse is going to sleep after a short period of inactivity and then refuses to wake up ... unless I use the keyboard first. There's a "USB selective suspend/resume and wakeup" in the kernel which I have made sure to deselect but that doesn't fix the problem. Does anyone else have this problem? Can anyone explain to me why this is happening? Does anyone know of a real solution? P.S. I have been running with the sys-kernel/mm-sources kernel which seems to behave much better but it's not officially supported so I went back to the regular sys-kernel/gentoo-sources kernel. I notice it's improved since the last time I tried it (i.e. the mouse doesn't freeze up as often anymore). -- [email protected] mailing list
