MS Intellimice optical 'shutting down' anyone?

[Wolfgang]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 01:28, Andre Costa wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:03:30 +1100
> Wolfgang <wolfgang at rpi.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 00:46, Andre Costa wrote:
> > > On 10 Mar 2004 02:46:41 -0300
> > > Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mar 10, 2004, Andre Costa <acosta at ar.microlink.com.br> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I've been experiencing lately some weird mouse behaviour: 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.
> > > > 
> > > > Arjan gave me this tip the other day, when I ran into a similar
> > > > problem: Alt-F2, start xterm, run metacity --replace, and mouse
> > > > buttons work again.  Not sure whether your problem is just with
> > > > buttons, or with being able to use the mouse to move the pointer,
> > > > select other apps, etc, but I thought I'd share the tip anyway.
> > > 
> > > Thks, any info might be valuable -- if not for me, at least for
> > > others.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, my problem is the worst one: mouse _really_ dies --
> > > no pointer, no buttons, no light (it's optical).
> > > 
> > > > It has saved me some work a number of times recently.  I suspect I
> > > > do have some mouse hardware issue, that causes a very large number
> > > > of events to be triggered at about the same time, getting metacity
> > > > very confused.  Of course it shouldn't lose touch with reality
> > > > just because of such an interactivity storm, but it looks like it
> > > > does :-(
> > > 
> > > That sucks =( I still can't say exactly what triggers the problem
> > > here on my box, but it does seem to come up earlier when I am doing
> > > some heavy interaction with mouse, like playing UT2004 demo. Also,
> > > problem doesn't seem to come up on windoze... =(
> > > 
> > > Best,
> > > 
> > > Andre
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Andre Oliveira da Costa
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm running two mice on my system. One for std use as a pointer and
> > the other one is a trackball used for gaming. No problems here. They
> > are both connected to the USB ports and both are optical (Both
> > Logitech Mice). I did have problems with PS/2 mice in earlier versions
> > of linux(RH7 or 8 had this problem). So I went USB, no problems since.
> 
> Thks, Wolf, will give it a try, too. Anyway, if it comes down to be a
> PS/2 problem, I have always used PS/2 mice, never had a problem with
> them -- this is my first optical mouse, though.
> 
> BTW: X11 is up for 2h already today with "nv" driver (instead of
> "nvidia"), no problems so far...
[snip]

I just remembered the other reason for going all USB. If you connect
both a PS/2 and USB mice on the same system, USB seems to disable the
PS/2 Mouse (I use a KVM here)

Wolf