From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Subject: No mouse, Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input1 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:11:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4808C84D.4020009@tiscali.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp-out2.tiscali.nl ([195.241.79.177]:58446 "EHLO smtp-out2.tiscali.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751484AbYDRQMA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:12:00 -0400 Received: from [82.171.187.43] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp-out2.tiscali.nl with esmtp (Tiscali http://www.tiscali.nl) id 1JmtBv-00006p-4c for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:11:59 +0200 Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: linux-input@vger.kernel.org I have a PS/2 mouse: dmesg | grep "^input:" input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 input: PS2++ Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input2 input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input3 About once a month, however, this mouse is not working after boot. * cat /dev/input/mice does not print when moving mouse * /etc/rc.d/rc.udev restart; /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm restart does not give a mouse However, usually after reboot the mouse is working again. I have had this problem for a few years now, not sure when it started. when comparing dmesg: diff -u dmesg_no_mouse dmesg_mouse | grep "^[-+]\(input:\|[-+][-+]\)" --- dmesg_no_mouse 2008-04-18 10:17:58.000000000 +0200 +++ dmesg_mouse 2008-04-18 10:59:30.000000000 +0200 +input: PS2++ Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 +input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input2 -input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input1 -input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input2 +input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input3 No mouse and Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input1 also occurred in dmesgs on 2007-09-15 12:35 2007-11-23 10:25 2007-12-01 18:34 2008-04-18 10:17 and Mouse as /class/input/input1 with mouse functioning in dmesgs on 2007-09-15 12:37 2007-11-23 10:28 2007-11-23 10:46 2008-04-18 10:59 Any ideas what goes wrong?