Mouse suddenly stops working in Karmic

[Bram Borggreve]

Binary package hint: xorg

My mouse suddenly stops working in Karmic. This seems to happen randomly, sometimes in a few minutes, sometimes after a few hours.

When this happens my keyboard still works fine but I can't restart my GDM session, the X screen doesn't go away, even when I try to kill the process. The only workaround is a reboot :(

I can't find anything strange in the the logfiles except for these errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.org:

(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Power Button
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Video Bus
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Power Button
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech Optical USB Mouse
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 23 16:31:16 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: ECS GeForce 8000 series
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=edebf266-abf3-4869-8235-0df8e881aa5f ro
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic-pae
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic-pae i686
dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080015
dmi.board.name: GeForce 8000 series
dmi.board.vendor: ECS
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: ECS
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080015:bd05/26/2008:svnECS:pnGeForce8000series:pvr1.0:rvnECS:rnGeForce8000series:rvr1.0:cvnECS:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GeForce 8000 series
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ECS
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-17-generic-pae

[bugbot (bugbot)]

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.