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n8wood n00b
Joined: 11 Apr 2002 Posts: 33 Location: providence, ri usa
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 2:20 pm Post subject: Intellimouse Explorer (usb) freezing |
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I have an Intellimouse Explorer USB mouse that is freezing on me after I leave my PC for a few hours. I turned off all Power Management options and recompiled a kernel with no APM options selected... still no luck.
X does not freeze, just the mouse. But, iIf I try to restart X, it crashes because there is no mouse available.
Any ideas? |
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klieber Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 3657 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Shot in the dark -- do you have gpm enabled? (console mouse driver.)
--kurt _________________ The problem with political jokes is that they get elected |
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n8wood n00b
Joined: 11 Apr 2002 Posts: 33 Location: providence, ri usa
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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no i am not using gpm.
should i be? |
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klieber Bodhisattva
Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 3657 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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gpm provides mouse access in the console. (non-X) It doesn't play nicely with XFree86 without some careful configuration, so lots of people have problems with it.
If you're not using it, then there's no reason you should be -- it's certainly not going to solve your problem.
I'm not sure what else your problem might be, so hopefully someone else can pitch in their $.02.
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Sivar Apprentice
Joined: 25 May 2002 Posts: 266 Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 6:27 am Post subject: |
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I used an Explorer in X and it worked fine. Are you using PS/2 or IMPS/2 in your XF86config? IMPS/2 (the Intellimouse protocol) doesn't seem to be compatible with the Explorer, so you'll have to use the regular PS/2 proto and live without the mouse wheel. My solution: I bought an ordinary Intellimouse and it works fine. _________________ The greatest deeds are still undone, the greatest songs are still unsung... |
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n8wood n00b
Joined: 11 Apr 2002 Posts: 33 Location: providence, ri usa
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Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2002 11:43 am Post subject: |
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I figured it out.
On long stints away from my computer, I've been powering off my monitor which has a built-in usb hub that i plug my mouse into. If I leave my monitor on, no problem.
Is usb hot swappable in Linux because I never seemed to have this problem in Win2k?
Thanks for the help. |
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AncientOne n00b
Joined: 31 Jul 2002 Posts: 6
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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hmm... could it be the problem with the mouse? I have a usb keyboard, usb intellimouse explorer and a usb scanner. The mouse is about a year old and hangs every now and then on my windows pc. I have to manually pull the plug out and reinsert it to get it working again. |
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