"Frozen" keyboard & mouse with xorg-x11-7.1

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EmmEff · Post by **EmmEff** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:05 pm

I am experiencing a very intermittent problem where my USB keyboard (Microsoft Wireless Keyboard) and mouse (Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse) clicks simply stop registering with the system. The keyboard is completely ignored but I am still able to move the mouse cursor around.

Unfortunately, I have little debugging info to offer. The kernel is 2.6.16.18-xen and I did not experience the problems with xorg-x11-6.8 on the same kernel.

Here are the keyboard and mouse sections from /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

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Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier "Keyboard1"
    Driver  "kbd"
    Option      "XkbModel" "microsoftmult"
    Option      "XkbLayout"   "us"

EndSection

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Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver     "evdev"
    Option     "Dev Name" "Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10"
    Option     "Dev Phys" "usb-0000:00:02.2-2.4.1/input1"
    Option     "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
    Option     "CorePointer"
    Option     "Resolution"   "800"
    Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

I am using the "radeon" driver but it appears this has little, if anything to do with the video driver and more to do with the 'evdev' and/or keyboard driver. If I do a '/etc/init.d/gdm/restart' from a remote ssh session, everything works again.

Just hoping this might ring a bell with somebody... the problem is irritating.

Beefrum · Post by **Beefrum** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:39 pm

Wireless: Radiowaves and batteries, perhaps? Cables and plugs for old times sake! Especially ,since it is intermittent!

EmmEff · Post by **EmmEff** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:15 pm

It worked consistently on xorg-x11 6.8. It works on Windows. This is a software related xorg-x11 7.1.

Beefrum · Post by **Beefrum** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:53 am

If that is your diagnosis, the real cause will be way beyond my knowledge of xorg.

b.t.w.,
I stick to cables and plugs, for that matter.

EmmEff · Post by **EmmEff** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:33 pm

I've heard of other people having problems with 'evdev' in xorg-x11 7.1 so that could be related. I used evdev with my Logitech mouse in 6.8 with no ill effects. Oh well, guess I'll have to live with it. It's well beyond my knowledge of xorg-x11 and there's nothing in the debug logs indicating that something went wrong when the 'freeze' occurs.