MS Intellimice optical 'shutting down' anyone?

[fred smith]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:08:50AM -0300, 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.

Is this a USB mouse?

I'm using a MS optical mouse on the USB port and a small number of times
it has just quit working. (Note: I'm still using it on RH72, not FC1)
AFter some experimentation I found that I could run:

(/usr/local/bin/fixmouse)
	#!/bin/sh
	echo You must be root to do this\!
	rmmod usb-uhci
	modprobe usb-uhci

and the mouse would come back to life.

It tends to happen only when I'm playing some games (shoot-em-ups, e.g.)
that requite a LOT of mouse activity.

> 
> 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).
> 
> I can't really precise if this started happening after latest X update
> -- been using this configuration for a while already, and never
> experienced any such problems. Also, problem doesn't seem to be
> repeatable on windoze on the same machine.
> 
> It could of course be a hardware (mouse) problem, but I would like to
> know if anyone had any similar experience -- or has any black-magic
> procedure to make X "re-probe" the mouse...
> 
> TIA
> 
> Andre
> 
> -- 
> Andre Oliveira da Costa
> 
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