[SOLVED]USB Mouse - Extrememly buggy behaviour

[huggle67]

Hello,

I am running Kubuntu 11.10 on a Toshiba Satellite A660 notebook. I plugged in my Logitech M305 USB mouse and I'm getting some really bizarre bugs happening.

I can't move between tabs in Chromium at all, when I click on a tab it just flashes for a second but stays on the original tab.

I'm using Smooth Tasks as my task manager and I can't move between minimized programs at all, it just freaks out and then stabilizes on where ever I was before.

Right-click menus are glitchy on the taskbar and window bars, when I click the menu flickers and disappears.

When I unplug my mouse everything works fine. I would really like to use my mouse, but I have no idea where to even begin. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Edited to add:
KDE: 4.7.3
GRUB: 0.97-29ubuntu64 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
CPU: 64-bit, dual core, intel, class: core i3, 2.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 310M
RAM: 4GB
HD: 320GB (5400rpm)
Optical Drive: One internal DVD Super Multi Burner

[halw]

Re: USB Mouse - Extrememly buggy behaviour

This may be a bit simplistic but, how old are the batteries in your mouse. Whenever my mouse starts to act flackey, new batteries is the first thing I try.

[huggle67]

Re: USB Mouse - Extrememly buggy behaviour

Brand new batteries and the mouse works fine with other computers.

[OneLine]

Re: USB Mouse - Extrememly buggy behaviour

Are the logs /1/ telling anything interesting when you plug the mouse in ?



Here:

a) Mouse connected
b) Command "dmesg" in the konsole is telling:

[ 548.792037] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device number 2 using ohci_hcd
[ 549.200507] input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input4
[ 549.200847] generic-usb 0003:046D:C00E.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:02.0-1/input0
[ 549.201453] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 549.201457] usbhid: USB HID core driver

1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles

[huggle67]

Re: USB Mouse - Extrememly buggy behaviour

I ran that command and these seem to be the relevant lines. I just don't know what any of it means..

[58682.297868] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.1/2-1.1:1.0/input/input21
[58682.298173] generic-usb 0003:046D:C52F.000B: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.1/input0
[58682.300646] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.1/2-1.1:1.1/input/input22
[58682.301122] generic-usb 0003:046D:C52F.000C: input,hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Device [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.1/input1

[huggle67]

Re: USB Mouse - Extrememly buggy behaviour

Okay I fixed it. First things is, I realized that the scroll wheel was stuck down and the mapping was messed up. Clicking on the scroll wheel and left-clicking were reversed. This is what I did to fix the mapping problem.

I ran

$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer             id=2  [master pointer (3)]
⎜  ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer        id=4  [slave pointer (2)]
⎜  ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad        id=12  [slave pointer (2)]
⎜  ↳ Logitech USB Receiver           id=13  [slave pointer (2)]
⎜  ↳ Logitech USB Receiver           id=14  [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard             id=3  [master keyboard (2)]
  ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard        id=5  [slave keyboard (3)]
  ↳ Power Button               id=6  [slave keyboard (3)]
  ↳ Video Bus                 id=7  [slave keyboard (3)]
  ↳ Video Bus                 id=8  [slave keyboard (3)]
  ↳ Power Button               id=9  [slave keyboard (3)]
  ↳ CNF9055                  id=10  [slave keyboard (3)]
  ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard       id=11  [slave keyboard (3)]

to identify my mouse.

So, I'm still not sure why there are two Logitech USB receivers (id=13 and id=14), but I ran

$ xinput get-button-map 13
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 89 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

and

$ xinput get-button-map 14
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

and I liked the look of 14 better so I went with that.

Since the first two numbers are left click and scroll wheel click respectively I then ran

$ xinput set-button-map 14 2 1 3 4 5 6 7

to remap the buttons.

My mouse now works like a charm.