Can no longer use my USB mouse with my laptop

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

> Prove to me that these problems don't exist in the stock Fedora kernel.
> Then I'll happily go away.

Prove it to yourself.  Download and install the stock Fedora kernel, boot 
into it, and see what happens.

If you search the archives, you won't find a recent rash of complaints 
about USB mice suddenly breaking after kernel updates.  Nobody can 
reproduce your exact configuration, at very least because you haven't told 
us what it is.

Earlier:

> What do other Fedora Core Users do to support suspend/hibernate in their
> laptops?

In my case, it just works (suspend does, anyway), modulo some video chip 
power consumption issue that took a while to get fixed three years ago. 
When that was a problem, I ran specially patched kernels.  If I had any 
other problem, I'd verify it with the stock kernel and only then report it 
here.

And:

> Please tell me how my question differs from all of the very useful help
> people get using the nVidia proprietary video drivers) which I also use
> on my desktop machine).

Plenty of people provide help getting the NVidia drivers working because 
they are popular and people with experience are willing to share their 
experiences.  People do not help NVidia driver users to debug other 
issues.  To a person, they would tell you to remove the NVidia driver and 
reproduce the problem using the stock kernel.  They would tell you this 
for the same reason they are telling you the same thing now: Nobody knows 
what effect the modifications might have, because nobody knows what the 
modifications are.


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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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