MS Intellimice optical 'shutting down' anyone?

[Mark Limburg]

Howdy,

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 13:38, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been experiencing lately some weird mouse behavior: all of a
> sudden, mouse simply goes off, and even though X11 remains responsive
> (keyboard works), it usually leaves me no option besides killing X11
> with CTRL+ALT+BKSP -- which often makes me lose some work. Restarting X
> brings mouse back up again, as if nothing had happened.
> 
> Mouse is MS IntelliMouse Wheel Optical, graphics board is a GeForce4
> Ti4200, XFree is latest version (4.3.0-55), NVidia drivers are also
> latest (5336).

Whilst I can't help as such, I have one of these mice and it's sweet
as.  Mind you, I have mine setup via USB rather than PS/2 .. how is
yours plugged in?

This info may help the techno-boffins here :)

MWL