USB optical mouse keeps dying - Solved - sort of

[Jan Morales]

Claude Jones wrote:
> Jan Morales wrote:
> 
>> Claude Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Claude Jones wrote:
>>> | I have a MS optical USB mouse. After a time, once the screen
>>> | save has kicked in, the mouse dies. The light goes out, and
>>> | even tho the keyboard still works and returns the screen, the
>>> | mouse continues to sleep. Only unplugging it and plugging it
>>> | back in revives it. Does anyone know how to fix this? I have an
>>> | almost identically configured box at work and it doesn't happen
>>> | there. | | --
>>> | Claude Jones
>>> | Bluemont, VA, USA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Claude Jones
>>> Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
>>> Leesburg, VA, USA
>>>
>>>
>>
>> So what is the sort-of solution?
>>
>> Jan
>>
> Sorry about that. I hit the enter key prematurely and was in the process 
> of leaving. I did a lot of searching and found no solutions. A lot of 
> spcculation about lost USB configurations and mounts and such. I gave up 
> and plugged a USB>PS2 adapter in. Now it stays on.
> 

This sounds a bit like the issue I reported, except without the KVM in 
my case. Were you seeing error messages similar to this in dmesg?

drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: input irq status -84 received

Maybe this isn't a KVM issue, but a USB mouse driver issue. My bug 
report is 150746 in bugzilla.

Jan