usb mouse can be reactivated?

[eugene_6]

hi..
sometimes my usb mouse stop acting, because of loose connection(?)

i have to reboot system?

any suggestion?
thank you

[Paulo A G Fessel]

Try as root:

service usbd restart

Paulo Fessel

[Marco Paganini · Accepted solution]

Hello eugene

That depends on many factors, but you can certainly try. :)

First, if you're inside X , do

Ctrl-Alt-F1

and then return to X with

Alt-F6 (or Alt-F7, depending on your configuration).

If that doesn't help, go to text mode with ctrl-alt-f1 and use:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/usb restart

Regards,
Paga