Mouse dying on me in Ubuntu

Hi everyone.

I'm having an annoying issue with my mouse on my ubuntu desktop in the
office. At random times, my mouse just stops responding.
At first I thought my mouse died, physically, but after replacing the
mouse with a new one (from a HP to a Logitech), I thought it was perhaps
the USB subsys. But af trying out my memory stick and plugging my mouse
into the PS2 port (with one of those green converter thingies) it became
apparant that that wasn't the case.

I can't seem to get my mouse going again, I tried removing the HID
modules and reloading them, but no luck. A reboot is my only option.

I'm running 7.10 with X.org with the opensource ATI drivers in a
dual-head setup.
Anyone an idea for a work-around or something?

In article <47b00799$0$85790$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
Jurgen Haan <jurgen@fake.dom> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm having an annoying issue with my mouse on my ubuntu desktop in the
> office. At random times, my mouse just stops responding.
> At first I thought my mouse died, physically, but after replacing the
> mouse with a new one (from a HP to a Logitech), I thought it was perhaps
> the USB subsys. But af trying out my memory stick and plugging my mouse
> into the PS2 port (with one of those green converter thingies) it became
> apparant that that wasn't the case.
>
> I can't seem to get my mouse going again, I tried removing the HID
> modules and reloading them, but no luck. A reboot is my only option.
>
> I'm running 7.10 with X.org with the opensource ATI drivers in a
> dual-head setup.
> Anyone an idea for a work-around or something?[/color]

Try removing and reinserting the mouse.

If the mouse speaks PS/2 (odds are it does), try connecting it to the
PS/2 port with an adapter.

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Jurgen Haan wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm having an annoying issue with my mouse on my ubuntu desktop in the
> office. At random times, my mouse just stops responding.
> At first I thought my mouse died, physically, but after replacing the
> mouse with a new one (from a HP to a Logitech), I thought it was perhaps
> the USB subsys. But af trying out my memory stick and plugging my mouse
> into the PS2 port (with one of those green converter thingies) it became
> apparant that that wasn't the case.
>
> I can't seem to get my mouse going again, I tried removing the HID
> modules and reloading them, but no luck. A reboot is my only option.
>
> I'm running 7.10 with X.org with the opensource ATI drivers in a
> dual-head setup.
> Anyone an idea for a work-around or something?[/color]


Could it be from static electricity? I had problems like that due to
shocking the mouse by accident. Try unplugging the mouse, and plugging
it back in again. You might also benefit from touching something
grounded, which is what I do now by habit every time before I touch my
computer now.


George

Hactar wrote:
[color=blue]
> Try removing and reinserting the mouse.
>
> If the mouse speaks PS/2 (odds are it does), try connecting it to the
> PS/2 port with an adapter.
>[/color]

Neither helps.

George Peter Staplin wrote:
[color=blue]
> Could it be from static electricity? I had problems like that due to
> shocking the mouse by accident. Try unplugging the mouse, and plugging
> it back in again. You might also benefit from touching something
> grounded, which is what I do now by habit every time before I touch my
> computer now.
>
>
> George[/color]


Reinserting does not help.
So far, all I can do when it happens is reboot.

It occurs both on PS2 and USB, with different mice.

So to me it seems the mouse handling in X is doing something quirky.
And no, restarting X does not help either.

In article <47b16bd6$0$85777$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
Jurgen Haan <jurgen@fake.dom> wrote:[color=blue]
> George Peter Staplin wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Could it be from static electricity? I had problems like that due to
> > shocking the mouse by accident. Try unplugging the mouse, and plugging
> > it back in again. You might also benefit from touching something
> > grounded, which is what I do now by habit every time before I touch my
> > computer now.[/color]
>
> Reinserting does not help.
> So far, all I can do when it happens is reboot.
>
> It occurs both on PS2 and USB, with different mice.
>
> So to me it seems the mouse handling in X is doing something quirky.
> And no, restarting X does not help either.[/color]

What about "rmmod psmouse ; modprobe psmouse" (when you're using a PS/2
mouse)?

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Hactar staggered into the Black Sun and said:[color=blue]
> Jurgen Haan <jurgen@fake.dom> wrote:[color=green]
>> George Peter Staplin wrote:[color=darkred]
>> > Try unplugging the mouse, and plugging it back in again.[/color]
>> Reinserting does not help. So far, all I can do when it happens is
>> reboot. It occurs both on PS2 and USB, with different mice. So to
>> me it seems the mouse handling in X is doing something quirky.[/color][/color]

If it's both USB and PS/2 mice, it's at a lower level than X. Which
kernel are you using? Is a KVM involved anywhere? Those can cause
weirdness for obvious reasons.
[color=blue]
> What about "rmmod psmouse ; modprobe psmouse" (when you're using a
> PS/2 mouse)?[/color]

If there are recalcitrant PS/2 mice around, using the resetafter=N
parameter to the psmouse module is another thing to try. This will
reset the mouse after N bad packets are received.

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Jurgen Haan <jurgen@fake.dom> wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm having an annoying issue with my mouse on my ubuntu desktop in the
> office. At random times, my mouse just stops responding.[/color]

Yeah, I've had a couple of reports of this on Ubuntu and Redhat. Let me
know if you manage to solve it.

I suggested unloading and reloading the mouse driver modules. I'm not
sure how successful this has been.)

FWIW the mouse used to work fine on the old 2.4 series kernels using the
moused driver. I think there was some restructuring on 2.6 that affected
the mouse functionality. The moused driver disappeared, and the mouse is
now driven by kernel modules. (I think, but I don't have any detailed
information on this, because there were distribution changes taking place, and
computers were being moved around at the time this was being reported.)

Regards,

Mark.

--
Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.

I suggested unloading and reloading the mouse driver modules. I'm not
sure how successful this has been.)


unloading and reloading the modules does work. Best answer given.


thanks,


Rolando