Hi,

I am a newbie. I just installed Mandrake 10.1 on my box. I am using a Microsoft Optical USB mouse.

Unfortunately the mouse locks up after several minutes. The keyboard still works. It seems to happen during heavy ethernet traffic.

Any ideas???

Thanks,
Tom

P.S. The PC works fine under Windows, so the hardware is ok.

i had that same problem a while back with slackware. exept mine was a hardware problem. My ps/2 mouse port was bad so i had my logitech mouse plugged in the usb port, which died on occasion, so i had to have a serial mouse for plan b.

Make sure you have the right mouse selected in your /etc/X11/XF86config file (dont forget to backup the file if you change it). If you have the right one selected, try setting it to a more generic driver, 3 button PS/2 mouse would be good. Just do that to see if the drivers bad. Im asuming it has a scroll wheel so disabling that might fix it. sorry I can't help much.

[edit]Oops, didnt' see it was usb. that changes things a bit. dont use the ps/2 driver. lol[/edit]