It Works fine... System lockups with F8 and Firefox

[Karl Larsen]

    Interesting things (to me). Tim said to look at IT and I have been 
doing so. Here is what /etc/X11/xorg.conf has to say about my mouse:

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

    I decided to look at /dev/input/mice and it has:

[karl at k5di ~]$ ls -al /dev/input/mice
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 63 2007-12-13 05:26 /dev/input/mice
[karl at k5di ~]$ cd /dev
[karl at k5di dev]$ cd input
[karl at k5di input]$ ls
by-path  event1  event3  event5  mice    mouse1
event0   event2  event4  event6  mouse0
[karl at k5di input]$ ls -al mice
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 63 2007-12-13 05:26 mice
[karl at k5di input]$ ls -al mouse0
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 32 2007-12-13 05:26 mouse0

This appears to be something special. I have no idea what it does to 
work but it is different from other /dev/xxx.

    I think the way this works is the reason for my sudden failures of 
both F7 and F8. I was plugging my mouse into a USB port. It works fine 
but I think there is a problem. Looking back the sudden failures may 
have begun when I put the mouse into the USB port. I now have the mouse 
plugged into a PS2 port and no sudden failures in 3 days.

    After a week without problems I will again plug the mouse into a USB 
port and see if the sudden failure returns.


Karl