USB Mouse - Is There a Terminal Command to Reset It?

[user672343]

My Question
Is there a terminal command to reset a USB mouse?

My Problem
After resuming from suspend, my USB mouse gets stuck while moving around the screen. (it will automatically get unstuck for a few seconds, but then get stuck again)

My Temporary Solution
If I unplug the USB mouse and plug it back in, it will work properly. But sometimes I have to do this several times.

And if I continue doing this it will wear out the USB port that I'm using.

[Snowhog]

Your last comment isn't likely to happen.

Have you cleaned the mouse?

[user672343]

Your last comment isn't likely to happen.

Have you cleaned the mouse?

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes, I've cleaned the mouse. (But for clarification, it's a laser mouse, rather than a ball mouse. And I'm using an opaque surface, rather than glass, so that shouldn't be an issue either.)

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The reason I'm requesting a terminal command to reset the mouse, is that unplugging the USB mouse and plugging it back in solves the problem. So I think I simply need to reset it, after I resume from suspend.

I noticed this terminal command for USB reloading, (to fix a USB mouse problem) but the command is several years old so I thought it might be obsolete in Kubuntu 18.04:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest.../234179#234179

[Snowhog]

Well, for starters, open a konsole and type the command given to list your USB information: lscpi | grep USB (or lsusb all by itself).

[user672343]

Well, for starters, open a konsole and type the command given to list your USB information: lscpi | grep USB (or lsusb all by itself).

This is the entry for my USB mouse, when I use the "lsusb" command:

[FONT=monospace]Bus 001 Device 017: ID 046d:c064 Logitech, Inc. M110 corded optical mouse (M-B0001)[/FONT]

Thanks for the continued help.

[oshunluvr]

Probably either removing and re-loading the mouse driver or the USB driver.

Of course, if you keyboard is also USB you might leave yourself unable to use the computer so do it with a script that unloads and then reloads the driver(s).

[user672343]

Probably either removing and re-loading the mouse driver or the USB driver.

Of course, if you keyboard is also USB you might leave yourself unable to use the computer so do it with a script that unloads and then reloads the driver(s).

Thanks for the advice. Your suggestion is exactly what I was looking for, a script to unload and reload the mouse driver or USB driver.

Do you know of any script I could use for this?

[user672343]

Hello again,

I appreciate the two responses I got above, but in both cases I started to get help and then...? The replies suddenly stopped. (for two weeks)

Is there something I forgot to do? Did I break some rule?

Please let me know, because it'd be a big help if I could learn which script I should use to reset my mouse driver. Thanks.

[user672343]

You did not do anything wrong, clearly no-one here knew a complete answer...

I suppose you're right, Teunis.

I didn't realize the complexity of resetting the mouse driver. (or USB driver)