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willy

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Registered: 2006-01-19

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Mouse and Keyboard stops working after a while

Hi, I'm not even sure where to start to find the cause of the problem. I have a normal ps/2 keyboard and USB optical mouse, both of them just stops working after a few hours. The light on the mouse just dies and the keyboard is not responsive at all.  I have to do a hard reboot of my computer. How and where can I diagnose the problem? I noticed the problem started when I upgraded to the latest kernel.

zenlord

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Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: Mouse and Keyboard stops working after a while

I encounter a similar problem on my laptop. I setup conky to show me the output of /var/log/messages on my desktop . That way I see what is causing the problems.

'My' thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=442268

Zl.

willy

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Registered: 2006-01-19

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Re: Mouse and Keyboard stops working after a while

I'll try that and I'll try to post the result onto this thread

willy

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Re: Mouse and Keyboard stops working after a while

I am getting this message quite often now, what does it mean?

Oct 31 01:44:08 wdesktop usb 1-1: reset low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6

willy

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Registered: 2006-01-19

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Re: Mouse and Keyboard stops working after a while

And then after a while it will just use a new address:

Oct 31 01:47:15 wdesktop usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 6
Oct 31 01:47:15 wdesktop usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
Oct 31 01:47:16 wdesktop usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Oct 31 01:47:16 wdesktop input: Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical as /class/input/input8
Oct 31 01:47:16 wdesktop input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical] on usb-0000:00:10.0-1

Then after that my mouse is unusable, the following is shown:

Oct 31 01:48:41 wdesktop usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 7
Oct 31 01:48:41 wdesktop usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
Oct 31 01:49:13 wdesktop usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9
Oct 31 01:49:45 wdesktop usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 10
Oct 31 01:49:56 wdesktop usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 11
Oct 31 01:50:08 wdesktop uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: Controller not stopped yet!

Unplugging and plugging the mouse back does not work
I found a workaround for that by unplugging the mouse, removing the uhci_hcd and adding it back, so:

sudo rmmod uhci_hcd
sudo modprobe uhci-hcd

But I'm still not sure what causes the problem.

Last edited by willy (2008-10-30 15:02:54)

zenlord

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Re: Mouse and Keyboard stops working after a while

I think our problems are unrelated, except in the fact that I also don't have a clue about the solution for you...

Zl.

Zibi1981

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Registered: 2008-01-31

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Re: Mouse and Keyboard stops working after a while

Well last couple updates were really, really annoying... First new HAL and PolicyKit rules resulted in inability to mount external devices and manage power, then new BlueZ broke many people's bluetooth support (including me), recently new qtcurve-gtk2 gave me an ugly OpenOffice.org interface on my KDEmod DE, and now I have a very similar problem with my keyboard - it just randomly stops working after a while and restart is needed. Maybe it's the same issue as presented here, although there're differences: 1) I'm working on laptop; 2) my mouse (Logitech MX1000 Laser Mouse) never failed me.
Any help greatly appreciated

EDIT

I've found out that my keyboard usually stops working just after I disable my synaptics touchpad with "Fn + F3" (a key combination meant for this on my laptop). On the other hand it doesn't happen if I unplug my mouse and plug it in again (it will also disable the touchpad via udev rule I've created). For a strange and unclear reason using "Fn + F3" disables not only my touchpad... What the hell?

Last edited by Zibi1981 (2009-02-23 06:48:46)

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