MS Intellimice optical 'shutting down' anyone?

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Randy Kelsoe wrote:

> Andre Costa wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been experiencing lately some weird mouse behavior: all of a
>> sudden, mouse simply goes off, and even though X11 remains responsive
>> (keyboard works), it usually leaves me no option besides killing X11
>> with CTRL+ALT+BKSP -- which often makes me lose some work. Restarting X
>> brings mouse back up again, as if nothing had happened.
>>
>> Mouse is MS IntelliMouse Wheel Optical, graphics board is a GeForce4
>> Ti4200, XFree is latest version (4.3.0-55), NVidia drivers are also
>> latest (5336).
>>
> I had the same problem with my MS cordless Intellimouse. It started 
> soon after the XFree86 upgrade. I could press the transmitter and the 
> mouse reset buttons, and it would come back for a while, then hang. 
> Sometimes it would come back on its own. I replaced it with a corded 
> Logitech Optical Mouse, and it has been rock solid for over a week. I 
> have an ATI Radeon, and I'm using the standard XFree86 driver.
>
>
>
There is a button on the Logitech usb cordless mouse and also a restet 
small button on the mouse itself. If you switch over to Micro-soft it 
will work, then if you reboot, you might have a change that it works. At 
least do mouseconfig under init 3

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