USB Trackball Mouse Turns Off

[ShogunMaster]

I am used to leaving my machine on all the time. I recently formatted my drive and to reinstall WinXP and RH8.

Now after several hours of inactivity my mouse turns off and I can't get it to wake up again. The keyboard works fine. I'm sure that I could do some command to get it going again but don't know where to start. I just end up rebooting to use it again or just turning the machine off when I am done.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

[twilli227]

Are you having this problem in WinXP or RH8.0? I have problems in XP after an extended period, but not in RH7.3.

[Lorithar]

Hmmm....


What I'd like to know is what hardware is involved (motherboard, video card, harddrive(s) and such) and what kernel version and such you've got there...

I'm chasing a rather odd problem in uhci on my system .. in which the USB core dies periodically ... this shows up in /var/log/syslog as
... usb controller halted: something bad happened.
and
.... controller halted: very bad.


Since I'm running with USB completely modular, the recovery is to unload and reload uhci. -- this may have to be done two or three times depending...

[mdwatts]

Take a note of the loaded modules while the mouse is working.

lsmod > lsmod.prior

and then when the USB mouse 'turns off'

lsmod > lsmod.after

and compare the two.