USB mouse crashed for no reason on Fedora 5

[James Wilkinson]

Yu Yi wrote:
> hi, I installed a fedora 5 on the notebook (Micro star S260-1758DL), the usb 
> mouse crashed shortly after starting system. At the beginning it still works 
> fine, but just for several minitues, I guess it shuts down if I stop using it a 
> little while. I checked the status of usb ports before and after crashing by 
> using "dmesg | grep -i usb", there is no difference. Does anybody know how to 
> solve it?

What happens if you unplug the mouse and plug it back in again?

If you open a terminal window, su to root, and run
tail -f /var/log/messages
and keep it open, do you see any messages appearing when the mouse stops
working?

Hope this helps,

James.

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