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# 1  
Old 08-18-2010
Mouse freezing after idle time
Hi All,

I am having a problem where my mouse (USB) is freezing after some idle time, and I am having to reboot everytime that happens.

I looked in the file /etc/X11/xorg.config to see if there is an entry for mouse and I could not find it. Instead I found the following entry:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

My question is can I have more than one section input device where one of the identifier is Mouse ?

The /dev/input directory has the following, but I am not sure what to make of this.

[root@jhlinux input]# pwd
/dev/input
[root@jhlinux input]# ls
event0 event1 event2 mice mouse0

Please help the rookie. Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 08-18-2010
Which RH/RHEL & kernel are you using?

If you replug the mouse, does it start working again?

Is there any relevant info in /var/log/messages?

Have you tried something like this in your xorg.conf?:

Code:
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

# 3  
Old 08-19-2010
Which RH/RHEL & kernel are you using?
RHEL 5.1 kernel 2.6.18-8.el5

If you replug the mouse, does it start working again?
No I am having to reboot

Is there any relevant info in /var/log/messages?
There is nothing in there that stands out to me. I would have to know what I am looking for...

Have you tried something like this in your xorg.conf?:
Code:
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection



This brings me back to my original question. Can I have multiple InputDevice sections in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Currently I have the following:

Code:
[root@jhlinux X11]# cat xorg.conf 

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

# 4  
Old 08-19-2010
Quote:
Can I have multiple InputDevice sections in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Yes.
# 5  
Old 09-28-2010
I am still having this problem and I just noticed something that might help explain what is going on. Just before my mouse freezes the following message is prompted on my command line:

"Message from syslogd@jhlinux at Mon Sep 27 23:37:04 2010 ...
jhlinux kernel: Disabling IRQ #209"

I am not sure what is going on. Please advise.
# 6  
Old 09-28-2010
The IRQ value seems unusually high; perhaps an APIC IRQ?

Try booting with "irqpoll" option.

Also, run "dmesg" after you get the error and see if you get any further info.
# 7  
Old 10-03-2010
Try booting with "irqpoll" option.

Sorry for my ignorance but how is this done ?
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