Comment 17 for bug 1072519

I can confirm a very similar behaviour in my system. After upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10 I started to experiment some non random mouse freezes, in my case if I lift up the mouse from table and keep it for 2 seconds when I put it back on table it stops working (no cursor movement, no buttons response), even though the mouse remains powered (optical light remains on).

I've been using the same laptop and USB mouse for years without any problem and after this issue has started to bother me, I tested this same hardware in different Linux distributions without experimenting such problem.

When the mouse stop working, unplugging and re-plugging, makes it get back to work.

I think this bug is a duplicate of bug #1019998.