Mouse Randomly stops working

twobit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Jul 2011 Posts: 76

Mouse will randomly stop working, When I pull up a terminal and cat the input i get nothing.
Not sure what is causing it. Can i restart a service to get it back without restarting the entire comp? or Xdm?

Seems to happen alot while playing java games. looking into lwjgl issues....

snkmoorthy · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 376

When the mouse has stopped working can you check for 'usb disconnect' message from 'dmesg'.

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Check USB auto-suspend.
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twobit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Jul 2011 Posts: 76

Dmsg says nothing... and it seems to be totally random.. while i'm using it. and the mouse still has power... (the light it on)

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 1:05 am Post subject:

a shot in the dark:

either usb autosuspend related, bluetooth (logitech) mouse, logitech wireless mouse,

CFS/cpu scheduler related issue under heavy load - so BFS kernel scheduler might help and/or CFS/cpu scheduler tweaking
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twobit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Jul 2011 Posts: 76

can i restart my mouse service in console? while x is running