Re: USB mouse disconnect/reconnect

[watermodem]

On a machine at work with a Logitech USB MouseMan+ and no extension
cable and a M$ usb keyboard I see the same thing.  Machine is a 
Dell with PII-400 and BX chipset.
  Happens during the night when not in use.

Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> 
> 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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