Re: usb mouse freezes machine

[Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:43:11PM -0800, Dean Roman wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> PROBLEM
> ===========
>   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
> =======
> 1) IBM i-Series laptop
> 2) Logitech First/Pilot wheel mouse
> 
> I load with modprobe:
> ==================
> usbcore
> mousedev
> hid usb-uhci
> input
> 
> Device
> =========
> created /dev/input/mice  (mknod mice c 13 63).
> 
> OS
> ======
> Debian woody
> 
> KERNEL
> ==========
> 2.4.17 from dselect (debian source package)
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> Any help is much appreciated...
> 
> 
> Thanks,
>    ---Dean.
> 
> --
> Dean Roman
> Email: droman@ti.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Are there entries in /var/log/messages, /var/log/kern.log, or
/var/log/syslog to indicate the mouse is registering as a usb device
correctly? Any error messages in the logs?

-- 
Jerome