Can anyone explain why some kernels react so oddly to my usb mouse?
by hazel from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4ZQK8)
I first noticed this in OpenBSD. When I first installed it, I had to use the console quite a lot and I noticed that the mouse seemed to be dropped and reattached constantly. I checked the plug and pushed it in hard but that didn't cure the annoyance. Then I noticed that once I was in X, the problem stopped. If I switched out to a console, it started again.
Naturally I thought this was just a BSD thing but I've just installed Bodhi and their kernel does exactly the same thing. Needless to say, I've never had this problem in Slackware!
I know that X has its own mouse driver (in Linux it's evdev) but the usb port itself is controlled by the kernel even in X, so I don't see how any purely physical problem there could be console-specific.
It's not really a problem but I would like an explanation all the same.:scratch:
Naturally I thought this was just a BSD thing but I've just installed Bodhi and their kernel does exactly the same thing. Needless to say, I've never had this problem in Slackware!
I know that X has its own mouse driver (in Linux it's evdev) but the usb port itself is controlled by the kernel even in X, so I don't see how any purely physical problem there could be console-specific.
It's not really a problem but I would like an explanation all the same.:scratch: