On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:53:39PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> I occasionally see my USB mouse freeze up under X11 on a Red Hat 9
> system running 2.5.69-mm3. It completely stops responding to events
> until I either switch virtual terminals or restart X, then magically
> comes back to life.
Does this also happem on a non-mm kernel?
> There are no entries in /var/log/messages to indicate what might be
> going on, so I'm quite mystified.
>
> This is on a system with USB compiled in modular form, though I notice
> that, weirdly enough, the refcounts on everything USB-related except
> usbcore are zero (i.e. hid, uhci_hcd, ehci_hcd), even though I'm using
> the USB mouse right now.
The hid driver never increments its user count, even when being used.
Same goes for the USB host controller drivers, so this is not a problem.
thanks,
greg k-h
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