Mouse randomly stops responding

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Mouse randomly stops responding
started by: dd5

Posted by dd5 on Mar. 10 2006,14:34

I'm a bit new to this and I was looking for a way to upload a knoppix distro onto a USB key, found DSL and works it great and all but both the CD and the USB key randomly drop my mouse. Sometimes the keyboard stops responding along with the mouse as well.

Posted by doobit on Mar. 10 2006,16:04

Are your mouse and keyboard USB or PS/2? also is your mouse an optical mouse or not? I haven't had them stop responding, but I noticed that I need to jiggle the optical mouse a little right after boot up to get it to start working. Interestingly this is also true in Windows.

Posted by dd5 on Mar. 10 2006,16:22

Optical Ps2 mouse, tried a few times to jiggle it around as well with no results

Posted by Orph on Mar. 14 2006,22:03

I have had the same problem with my mouse. It's a ps2 non-optical. Strangely it will stop working after a random ammount of time after starting X. My keyboard has never had such a problem, but the mouse not working after a few min has been pretty consistant from every bootup.

I noticed that if I force X to shut off with ctrl alt delete and then command startx the mouse will work for a few min again, but also again it will stop working after a random ammount of time. Any ideas or suggestions would be appriciated.

I know the problem isn't my hardware as it was working fine with windows before I installed DSL, and I have tried switching mouses and the same problem still visualizes.

Oh, and jiggling it doesn't work. Strange enough however, awhile ago when I was using Ubuntu on this same machine a similar problem would occasionally happen and jiggling would fix it.

Posted by aveline on Mar. 14 2006,23:40

try disabling DPMS in the xorg.conf file.

Aveline