I'd ruled this out because I was expecting it to cause overly nasty disruption to mouse movement, however it is nowhere near as bad as I'd expected, even set to reload every 2 seconds, but i'm trying another mouse at the moment, which *seems* to be working (so far)
Thanks! Rob.
On 7/22/06, Richard Lewis richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:03:32 +0000, "Rob Page" page.rob@gmail.com said:
Unloading and reloading the usbhid module gets it working again, but this is an absolute pain. Also, killing X also gets it working again...
Anyone have any idea what I can do to make it work?
What about a cron job which reloads the usbhid module once a minute? ;-)
Richard.
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New mouse is working fine *and* the old mouse works fine on the box I stole the new mouse from.
*screams at stupid hardware*
Thanks for all your help!
Rob.
On 7/22/06, Rob Page page.rob@gmail.com wrote:
I'd ruled this out because I was expecting it to cause overly nasty disruption to mouse movement, however it is nowhere near as bad as I'd expected, even set to reload every 2 seconds, but i'm trying another mouse at the moment, which *seems* to be working (so far)
Thanks! Rob.
On 7/22/06, Richard Lewis richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:03:32 +0000, "Rob Page" page.rob@gmail.com said:
Unloading and reloading the usbhid module gets it working again, but this is an absolute pain. Also, killing X also gets it working again...
Anyone have any idea what I can do to make it work?
What about a cron job which reloads the usbhid module once a minute? ;-)
Richard.
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On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 02:01:43PM +0100, Rob Page wrote:
New mouse is working fine *and* the old mouse works fine on the box I stole the new mouse from.
*screams at stupid hardware*
It could be that the mouse that was "faulty" needs more power than the mouse that works on both machines. The USB ports on the "faulty" machine might not be supplying enough power to the mouse so it sometimes does something that causes it to crap out, the new machine might have a better power supply on the usb ports than the old machine, and the mouse you stole from it perhaps uses less power.
Thanks Adam
On 7/22/06, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
It could be that the mouse that was "faulty" needs more power than the mouse that works on both machines. The USB ports on the "faulty" machine might not be supplying enough power to the mouse so it sometimes does something that causes it to crap out, the new machine might have a better power supply on the usb ports than the old machine, and the mouse you stole from it perhaps uses less power.
How much power does a mouse need?!?
Tim.
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 07:26:55PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
On 7/22/06, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
It could be that the mouse that was "faulty" needs more power than the mouse that works on both machines. The USB ports on the "faulty" machine might not be supplying enough power to the mouse so it sometimes does something that causes it to crap out, the new machine might have a better power supply on the usb ports than the old machine, and the mouse you stole from it perhaps uses less power.
How much power does a mouse need?!?
Usually between 50ma and 100ma, I'm thinking more along the lines that the machine might have faulty power regulation (or some such) on the USB bus that the old mouse (100ma for example) is drawing that bit much that freaks the USB out and the "new" mouse only pulls 50ma so works reliably. Most motherboards should supply 500ma to the USB ports but some machines have design features/flaws that mean they don't supply that much power at all.
It's just a theory ;)
Thanks Adam
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 07:26:55PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
How much power does a mouse need?!?
Oh, and I forgot to add that this might explain the other random USB weirdness/problems that Rob has/had with the machine.
Thanks Adam
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