From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265487AbTLHSG5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:06:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265497AbTLHSG5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:06:57 -0500 Received: from lvs00-fl-n03.valueweb.net ([216.219.253.136]:64905 "EHLO ams003.ftl.affinity.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265487AbTLHSG4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:06:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD4BD1B.1060708@coyotegulch.com> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:04:11 -0500 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Of Mice and Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Please indulge a minor story in regard to testing beta kernels. Last Friday, I made a minor change to my Linux .config and rebuilt 2.6.0-test11. Soon thereafter, my mouse began getting "stuck", sometimes for several seconds, refusing to move no matter how vigorously I wiggled my wrist. I rebuilt the kernel a couple of times, turning on and off various options; I plugged and unplugged devices from the USB ports; a considerable amount of cursing ensued. The problem was erratic -- and frustrating, because I hadn't had much trouble with 2.6 (which I've been using since the 2.6.4x days). Then I borrowed a mouse from another machine, plugged it in -- and the replacement rodent worked flawlessly. It seems that my mouse broke just about the same time as I installed test11. Being a software guy, I should have blamed the hardware first... ...especially since the truth was right in front of me, emblazoned boldly across the mouse: the word "Microsoft". I think the replacement will be from Logitech. -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Software Invention for High-Performance Computing