On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 00:25:58 +0100, Philou wrote: > I noticed that my Logitech MX510 USB mouse stops responding after i > unplug and re-plug it. (I first noticed that when suspend to disk/ram > with tuxonice made my USB mouse stopped working upon resume. > > Upon resume, everything seems OK, as far as i can tell : > > lsusb sees the mouse correctly and i can't see anything wrong when using > udevmonitor ( symlinks are ok, and points correctly to /dev/input/event3 > which is what i have in my xorg.conf. > > Everything used to be OK, on that part, when using 2.6.20.11. Now, > even when going back to 2.6.20.11, it behaves the same, no mouse upon > unplug/replug so i thought that it may be not be kernel related > > PC is ASUS P4C800-E ( 3.0 GHz x86) running Debian SID, latest packages. > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "evdev" > Option "CorePointer" > # Option "Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3" > Option "Buttons" "10" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > # Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" > EndSection > When you unplug/replug the mouse, it might get a different device node, so specifying /dev/input/event3 in xorg.conf is broken. It'd probably work if you specified a persistent path, using the symlinks under /dev/input/by-id/, or if you used X input-hotplug support with hal.
Cheers, Julien
