Mouse stopped working after upgrade to Karmic

[zeroandone]

I upgrade to Karmic from Jaunty and my Dell Optical Wheel Mouse stopped working after reboot. Command lsusb gives the following output:
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0409:0058 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c30f Logitech, Inc. Logicool HID-Compliant Keyboard (106 key)
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

xinput list gives this:
"Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard" id=3 [XExtensionKeyboard]
 Type is KEYBOARD
 Num_keys is 248
 Min_keycode is 8
 Max_keycode is 255
"Macintosh mouse button emulation" id=4 [XExtensionPointer]
 Type is MOUSE
 Num_buttons is 32
 Num_axes is 2
 Mode is Relative
 Motion_buffer is 256
 Axis 0 :
  Min_value is -1
  Max_value is -1
  Resolution is 1
 Axis 1 :
  Min_value is -1
  Max_value is -1
  Resolution is 1

[Michael McKinley (m-mckinley)]

I experienced the same thing on my T42 Thinkpad. Touchpad, trackpoint, and a USB mouse I plugged in after logging in all do not work (neither movements nor button presses are registered).

[Michael McKinley (m-mckinley)]

This appears to have something to do with the 2.6.30 kernel, as I am still able to use the mouse fine if I use the 2.6.28 kernel.

[zeroandone (jeffreyzheng)]

The current work around I am using is to use a PS/2 mouse...and it works well. Low tech rocks. :-)

[David Vonka (vonkad)]

Confirming with Dell usb keyboard and mouse. The system believes it has a Macintosh mouse, the mouse does not react at all, the keyboard does. I replaced the mouse by a targus optical mouse, which, apart from being perversly pink, works very well.

[Marques Johansson (marques)]

I updated from Jaunty to Karmic today (using update-manager -c -d -p). My mouse is not working Dell Optical now either.

[Marques Johansson (marques)]

I switched back to the previous kernel where the mouse was working and that did fix the problem. I also tried the xorg.conf generated by xorg -configure (which tries the "mouse" driver instead of evdev) and installed the xorg-input-driver-mouse package and set AllowEmptyInput to true in ServerLayout. That didn't help either. For now I have to use keyboard as mouse..

I've also tried gpm and it doesn't appear to be working. Maybe something udev or hal related? Nor does "cat /dev/input/mice" which in the past has shown data/junk when you move the mouse.

[Marques Johansson (marques)]

I meant to say switching to the old kernel did NOT fix the problem.

[Marques Johansson (marques)]

I am also working around this problem by using a PS2 mouse until the problem is resolved.

[Marques Johansson (marques)]

This is now fixed for me.

xserver-xorg-input-evdev: 1:2.2.2-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-input-mouse: 1:1.4.0-2
linux-image: 2.6.30.9.8

[Marques Johansson (marques)]

catting /dev/input/mice works again too.. That would imply kernel. But switching back to an older kernel didn't resolve the problem for me.. odd.

here are a few more package versions that may be related:
udev: 142-2
hal: 0.5.12+git20090512-0ubuntu3

[dbosen (daniel-bosen)]

I have the same problem, the solution described in #381134 worked for me perfectly.

[George Pollard (porges)]

> I have the same problem, the solution described in #381134 worked for me perfectly.

I can confirm that this (remove 'quiet splash') fixed my problem.

[vasilisc (vasilisc)]

I confirm this bug! my mouse a4tech x7
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Linux vasilisc.bius.lan 2.6.31-5-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Sat Aug 1 12:48:18 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

[Leonid Shevtsov (leonid)]

I confirm the bug with Logitech V550 Nano wireless mouse, after upgrading to Karmic Beta 1.
Catting /dev/input/mice does work.

Sometimes the mouse works after plugging the receiver into another port, this happens randomly.

The mouse worked without any problems on Jaunty with kernels 2.6.28, 2.6.30 and 2.6.31.

There are no InputDevice sections in my xorg.conf.

I attach the lsusb and three Xorg log fragments: one from boot, which does not handle the mouse, one for when the mouse is being detected randomly, and one from Jaunty, when the mouse was working.

[DisDis (igor-demyanov)]

I upgrade to Karmic from Jaunty. Confirm this bug! my mouse a4tech x7 (X-710FS)
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Linux 2.6.31-12
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

[Jon Neal (reportingsjr)]

This bug is definitely an issue. I have a "Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0" that is no longer usable because of this bug. I can not use my desktop with karmic on it due to this. A fix in the near future would be nice!

[Ryan (ubuntu-draziw)]

Since the mouse works before the gdm screen, and appears to choke at gdm - I think the issue is in gdm vs the kernel.

[Jan van de Voort (janvandevoort)]

Did an upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic Koala - PS2 mouse worked fine in Jaunty, just disappeared in 9.10. However, for a newly created user, no problem, user has mouse in desktop session. But for any previously created users on the system, there is just no mouse.When starting Nautilus from the terminal, I get my mouse again, and I can use it normally. To make sure it is not a theme problem, I reverted to default Ubuntu theme...but still no mouse, except when doing the workaround with terminal / nautilus.

[Jan van de Voort (janvandevoort)]

I guess that for me it's related to the video controller (Brookdale): - when putting resolution as low as 640 x 480, mouse appears again. Of course this is not a workable video resolution.

lspci | grep VGA:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)

[Jan van de Voort (janvandevoort)]

Resolved my problem through (re)installation of 9.10 (instead of upgrade), now it works like a charm.

[Ryan (ubuntu-draziw)]

Jan van de Voort,

On your fresh 9.10 install, could you please post the output of grep -i mouse /etc/gdm/* ? Thanks!

[SjV (samu-vassinen)]

Solved my problem by disabling Intel SpeedStep Technology setting in BIOS, mobo: Asus P5N-SLI. Now system has been up over 50mins without mouse freezing.

[Jan van de Voort (janvandevoort)]

Hello Ryan, sorry for the delay. Here is the output of grep -i mouse /etc/gdm/*

grep -i mouse /etc/gdm/*
/etc/gdm/failsafeDexconf:for SECTION in Header Files InputDeviceKeyboard InputDeviceMouse \
/etc/gdm/Xsession: disptext=`gettextfunc "System has no Xclients file, so starting a failsafe xterm session. Windows will have focus only if the mouse pointer is above them. To get out of this mode type 'exit' in the window."`
/etc/gdm/Xsession: disptext=`gettextfunc "Failed to start the session, so starting a failsafe xterm session. Windows will have focus only if the mouse pointer is above them. To get out of this mode type 'exit' in the window."

(and then returning to prompt in terminal, please indicate whether you need more or expect anything else)

[codswallop (richard-bitbash)]

This bug is also a problem for me, I have a Logitech MX-700 wireless USB mouse which stops working an hour or so after reboot.

[Starla Insigna (hatkirby)]

I had this problem too, but I fixed it by re-installing GRUB. I had previously installed GRUB on another partition a few weeks before upgrading to Karmic, and because of that, my computer kept booting into the old kernel instead of the new one. It also fixed some other problems I was having with Karmic.

[jollywollup (jollywollup)]

I tried installing Grub2 after reading Starla's post, and my mouse issues seem to have disappeared as well. The procedure was pretty simple and I was up and running again in just a few minutes.

[jollywollup (jollywollup)]

I take that back, my mouse issues are still there even after the Grub2 install.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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[zeroandone (jeffreyzheng)]

I confirm it is fixed in Lynx.

Thanks,

Jeffrey (zeroandone)

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Subject: [Bug 378818] Re: Mouse stopped working after upgrade to Karmic

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> Hi zeroandone,
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> test if it still occurs on Lucid?
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> Ubuntu, but not in the bug tracker. Instead, to raise the issue through
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> Mouse stopped working after upgrade to Karmic
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> Bug description:
> I upgrade to Karmic from Jaunty and my Dell Optical Wheel Mouse stopped
> working after reboot. Command lsusb gives the following output:
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0409:0058 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c30f Logitech, Inc. Logicool HID-Compliant
> Keyboard (106 key)
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>
> xinput list gives this:
> "Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard" id=3 [XExtensionKeyboard]
> Type is KEYBOARD
> Num_keys is 248
> Min_keycode is 8
> Max_keycode is 255
> "Macintosh mouse button emulation" id=4 [XExtensionPointer]
> Type is MOUSE
> Num_buttons is 32
> Num_axes is 2
> Mode is Relative
> Motion_buffer is 256
> Axis 0 :
> Min_value is -1
> Max_value is -1
> Resolution is 1
> Axis 1 :
> Min_value is -1
> Max_value is -1
> Resolution is 1
>
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