Garrett D'Amore wrote: > michael schuster wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> (if you get this twice, please excuse ... and reply to laptop-discuss) >> >> I sometimes use this rather cute mini-mouse (USB) on my >> OpenSolaris-running, build90-sporting lenovo t60p laptop, and have >> noticed that sometimes, apparently after me having not touched it for >> a few minutes, it doesn't move the on-screen cursor anymore. it's an >> optical mouse, so normally the red light is on, but when this happens, >> the light is off too. >> >> I looked into /var/adm/messages, but didn't find anything. >> >> The built-in touchpad isn't affected by this, and unplugging it and >> plugging it back in helps, but it is a bit if a bother. >> >> any hints? >> >> TIA >> Michael >> > Does this happen with other operating systems? It seems a bit unlikely > that this is a USB driver problem to me -- there aren't any bits that I > can think of in the system that are power management sensitive.
I don't normally use other OSs on this laptop, but I gave it a go last night, and during the ca. 3h the laptop was up, I used the mouse about 5 times. It was "alive" even after ca 1h of inactivity (plugged into the very same USB port I used with Solaris as well). Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
