I'm just trying to upgrade or replace CentOS 4.5 on my PC. For starters I'm testing Fedora 7, Ubuntu 7.04 and CentOS 5

In CentOS 4.5 about once or twice a day the mouse stops working (no mouse movement). Unplugging the (USB) cable and re-plugging it usually solves this

In Fedora 7 and Ubunto 7.04 within 5 minutes the mouse stops working. I can still use the keyboard. As far as I know the only way to fix this is to reboot the pc

I haven't tried CentOS 5 yet

Specification:
Mesh Elite(2) Power SLI
Intel CoreT 2 Due E640G

Nothing connected to any of the other USB ports

I've tried two different mice, both with the same results

Not sure if it is relevant, but during booting I've received following error messages (not sure which distro, can find out if relevant):

USB 2-1: Unable to read config index 0
Error receiving uevent message: no buffer space available

Internet searches so far fruitless

Any suggestions?

Thanks

This might not be the same issue, but for a while I had problems with the mouse pointer disappearing randomly. This was after I upgraded to a new mobo that had onboard nVidia graphics. This is a known bug with the 61xx series nvidia controllers.

My fix was to add a line in the 'Devices' section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf that read

Option "HWCursor" "off"

then reboot.