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twobit Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jul 2011 Posts: 76
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:46 pm Post subject: Mouse randomly stops working. |
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So my mouse randomly stops working... Usb mouse, have tried different mice in different ports. still just stops working until i reboot. re emerged xf86-input stuff didn't help.
Is their at least a way to restart the service so i don't have to reboot? my keyboard still works. |
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BradN Advocate
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 2391 Location: Wisconsin (USA)
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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First check dmesg for usb errors, possibly as a workaround you could try using a usb hub, or making the usb host driver a module and reloading it.
Does this only affect mice? Can you use, for example, a usb flash drive after it messes up? More details helps troubleshoot.
If you go to a text console, can you still cat /dev/input/mice, wiggle the mouse and get mousey data? If so, this would point towards a problem in X, if not, then hardware or kernel. |
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PaulBredbury Watchman
Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310
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VoidMage Watchman
Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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IIRC, that's a bit out of date - an equivalent fix (by my reading) went into systemd/udev 184 (with this commit). |
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PaulBredbury Watchman
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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Nah, that commit is also in udev fork, which I use, and I needed to add a custom rule to stop auto-suspend on my mouse. |
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twobit Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jul 2011 Posts: 76
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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Will post more info when it happens again .. i'll try cat /dev/input/mice when it dies. Using Udev 197.. |
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PaulBredbury Watchman
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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You can just run that one-liner I gave, to check whether it's an issue. Something to do, to kill 10 seconds while waiting for your mouse to die again |
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