[gentoo-user] USB Mouse

[Hilco Wijbenga]

I have a USB mouse which likes to freeze up every now and then.
Whenever I don't use my box for a little while (not necessarily long
enough for the screen saver to kick in) and then touch the mouse, it
will freeze right away or within a few seconds. Leaving X and starting
X again doesn't fix the problem: I have to actually reboot.

The only "solution" I have found is to make sure I use the keyboard to
"wake up" the system. If I touch a key and wait a few seconds (that's
important; if I use the mouse too fast it may still freeze up), I can
safely use the mouse again without any trouble.

So it looks like the USB mouse is going to sleep after a short period
of inactivity and then refuses to wake up ... unless I use the
keyboard first. There's a "USB selective suspend/resume and wakeup" in
the kernel which I have made sure to deselect but that doesn't fix the
problem.

Does anyone else have this problem? Can anyone explain to me why this
is happening? Does anyone know of a real solution?

P.S. I have been running with the sys-kernel/mm-sources kernel which
seems to behave much better but it's not officially supported so I
went back to the regular sys-kernel/gentoo-sources kernel. I notice
it's improved since the last time I tried it (i.e. the mouse doesn't
freeze up as often anymore).
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