Re: USB mouse disconnect/reconnect

Jan Kasprzak (kas@informatics.muni.cz)
Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:37:48 +0100


Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
: It may be because of a flaky cable. Are there any messages above that?
:
No messages from USB (some HW csum failures from the eth0, but
nothing related to my mouse). But you may be right, the mouse is connected
via a 5m extension USB cable.

: The device number changes because some process still has the first mouse
: open, so it assigns it the next available unused device.
:
: There's a shared mouse device as well you might find more to your
: liking.

I'll look at it, thanks. Fortunately I do not use more than one
USB mouse (altough this is a dual-{head,keyboard,mouse} configuration,
the other mouse is on the PS/2 port).

-Y.

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