usb mouse freezes machine

[Dean Roman <droman@ti.com>]

Hello all,


PROBLEM
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  Whenever I try to access the /dev/input/mice device, the machine freezes.  After this, I must do a hard power off
reboot.  Not even the Ctrl-Alt-Del key works.

   I have tried the following two things:
1) Setup gpm to use /dev/input/mice  (machine freezes after the mouse moves about 3 inches)
2) cat /dev/input/mice  (machine freezes after hitting <Enter> key)

SETUP
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1) IBM i-Series laptop
2) Logitech First/Pilot wheel mouse

I load with modprobe:
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usbcore
mousedev
hid usb-uhci
input

Device
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created /dev/input/mice  (mknod mice c 13 63).

OS
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Debian woody

KERNEL
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2.4.17 from dselect (debian source package)



Any ideas?
Any help is much appreciated...


Thanks,
   ---Dean.

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Dean Roman
Email: droman@ti.com