On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 12:51 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: 
> I'm rather surprised that it managed to work after you plugged the mouse 
> back in.

:-)
It does without problems though, repeatably (whenever I get this, I
don't use my USB mouse much)

> Anyway, I don't see what can be done about it.  The "host system error" 
> means that there was a PCI abort (or something similar) while the USB 
> controller was using the bus.  Undoubtedly a hardware problem.  Probably 
> it's intermittent because the controller doesn't use the PCI bus all the 
> time.

Thanks for that explanation. Does make me wonder though why I only see
this with USB, when the problem is on the PCI level. Shouldn't I see
different things failing as well (like sound playing?)

Just wondering,
Johannes

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