On Feb 7, 2008 12:23 PM, Hilco Wijbenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
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