Hello all,

I have been using Fedora Core 3 for a month now and one of the most frustrating issues is the glitchiness around my USB optical mouse. Every so often the mouse freezes up or stops repsponding completely and I have to log off and log back in to restore it. I use keyboard shortcuts to do this. It is a big pain and I was wondering if there was a patch available or easy remedy to the problem. My buddy uses Fedora 3 too and he said he had the same problem until he switched to a PS-2 mouse. Now it doesn't happen anymore. What can I do?

Cliff

This is my lsmod output
[ccc@ccc ~]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 24705 1
lp 11565 0
parport 41737 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 24005 0
i2c_dev 10433 0
i2c_core 22081 1 i2c_dev
sunrpc 160421 1
lufs 21632 2
dm_mod 54741 0
button 6481 0
battery 8517 0
ac 4805 0
usb_storage 61321 0
joydev 8705 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 232577 21
uhci_hcd 31449 0
ehci_hcd 31557 0
snd_intel8x0 34829 1
snd_ac97_codec 64401 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47609 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97993 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29765 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9673 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4801 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 26725 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8137 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 54053 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi, snd_seq_device
soundcore 9889 2 snd
e1000 77389 0
floppy 58609 0
ata_piix 8389 4
libata 40005 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 16961 5
scsi_mod 118417 3 usb_storage,libata,sd_mod
[ccc@ccc ~]$

One more thing, my kernel is version 2.6.9-1.667

is this a typical problem?

what does you xorg.conf input device section look like?

# **********************************************************************
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"



anything like this? I've always used the usb-mouse module and it's alway's worked out pretty well.

I'm sorry, where is xorg.conf?

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.

before you make any changes do this (in a console under root):

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

that way we have a backup you can always get back to. Keep in mind to edit this file you have to be root.

Thanx,
My Input device section:

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Dell M782"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 30.0 - 85.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection