Distribution: Red Hat Enterprise WS v4 Hardware Environment: Dell Precision 670n Problem Description: At various times, my mouse will lock up. Pulling the mouse physically from the USB port and reinserting will get the mouse working once again. Steps to reproduce: Not sure. At various times, the mouse will simply lock. I'm sure something is triggering this, but haven't been able to narrow it down as of yet.
Please retry with the current mainline kernel (2.6.11). If you are unable to reproduce it there, I will close the bug. If you can't test with 2.6.11, then I suggest filing a RedHat bug. Thanks, Nish
OK. If you feel that the bug has been resolved, I'll wait until Red Hat updates their kernel and go from there. You can leave this open or close. If this continues to happen, I'll refile a bug. Thanks.
Do you know of a specific patch that has addressed this issue?
Any updates on this? Would you be able to provide me with a specific patch that resolved this issue in a later kernel?
Ryan, Sorry, I got doing other things for a bit there. I don't have any specific patches, but the general setup for BugMe is that if a bug isn't reproducible in mainline (currently 2.6.11.4, technically), then it is no longer a bug. I just wanted to confirmation that the bug should stay open. Like I said, if the bug does dissappear with 2.6.11.4, feel free to file a RHEL bug on their Bugzilla and have them backport whatever patch fixed it. -Nish
I just finished installing the 2.6.11.4 kernel, and the bug is still present. What I find triggers this the most is if you're holding down one of ALT, CTRL, or a combination of both. I'm using FVWM for my window manager, and I have these keys set to change certain behavior. I've been finding that based on how much I'm doing with those keys determines how frequently my mouse will lock on me.
I've confirmed that this problem exists using different USB mice and on multiple systems.
Your keyboard - is it PS/2 or USB as well? And is it possible that it's X/window manager that is locking up - if you switch to cnosole (and have GPM running) is mouse still not responsive?
My keyboard is PS/2. I've verified that the window manager remains active while the mouse is locked up. I was able to type and minimize windows through key combinations. I've also locked the mouse up under GNOME. I just locked the mouse up using gpm, so this bug appears to be present all over.
Any update on this problem please. Thanks.
I have found that the issue appeared to be resolved with a BIOS update. The system being used was a Dell Precision WorkStation 670. You may want to investigate such an update for your system.
USB legacy SMI problem methinks - various Dells had those