HID devices not functioning

[FrankKubuntu]

Hi all,

I have some older Logitech mouse/kbd combo using wireless unifier HID dongle on USB.

Works fine with 13.10 (yeah old one!) but with 16.04 it doesn't work, both during live CD install and after rebooting.

~$ xsetpointer -l | grep Pointer
12: "Logitech Logitech BT Mini-Receiver" [XExtensionPointer]

lusb seemed to detect as well, although I can't recall the verbose, would have to do it again.

I reboot into 13.10 and all works fine.
I have tried reconnecting, pressing mouse/lbs buttons, etc.
Then I plugged a more recent wireless USB dongle from Logitech and it detected the mouse immediately.

I read that I have to enable "USB Human Interface Device (HID) support in the USB support and Mouse Support in the Input core support". Do I? In 2016? How can I check if I need to do it and how to do it then?

I wanted to update from 13.10 to 16.04 this week cuz I'm on vacations, but I'm stuck at step 0 (kbd and mouse are a no brainer, usually). loll

Tnx!

[oshunluvr]

Difficult to troubleshoot with so little information. dmesg output? Xorg.0.log output? Model of device in question?

Assuming it's a bluetooth device ("BT" is a hint), you may not have bluetooth fully enabled on your install. Could be a setting somewhere too, like HID2HCI_ENABLED=1 was needed in the past for some bt devices.

Basically, it's not being detected as a Human Input Device.

[FrankKubuntu]

Ha! You reminded me of the issue. I fixed it.

I think it started to happen about 5 years ago with 11.10, but for some reasons I need to remove packages that have "bluez" in the name or description, except I need to keep "libbluetooth3". I installed muon first cuz since 14.04 there are no package manager by default, but I need muon anyway.

For those who don't know,

sudo apt-get install muon

Tnx man!

[oshunluvr]

Hah! I'd rather be lucky than good!

I thought muon was no longer being maintained. I usually just install from the command line anyway. Faster and more output for when something goes wrong. Only bad part is you have to know your target package name...

[FrankKubuntu]

Replying to my post makes you good already.

Looks like muon is still maintained, at least for now. I don't always know the name of the package/librairy and I find it easier to search/scan through.

[sithlord48]

apt search

is a nice easy way to search on the cli