I have a Logitech mx5500 Revolution mouse and keyboard set. Since using Karmic, they have worked flawlessly (something I haven't seen with the Revolution in Ubuntu). The typical behavior of this mouse is that its wheel is "clicky" until the user spins fast enough that the mechanism inside frees the wheel, allowing it to spin freely. On every start, this is the behavior I get, however-
When the mouse is left along long enough (or power cycled via a switch), it reverts to the 'broken' behavior I have seen before with Ubuntu. Instead of spinning the wheel to make it enter free spin, a simple "middle click" does it and middle click functionality is broken (ie, not registered at all).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/dsp: don 3208 F.... vlc
/dev/snd/controlC0: don 1835 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Audigy2'/'SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] (rev.4, serial:0x20021102) at 0xd000, irq 18'
Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9721,23'
Components : 'AC97a:83847609'
Controls : 210
Simple ctrls : 46
Date: Wed Nov 4 01:55:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=65952b62-619b-44e9-bc91-3008ba414889
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: MSI MS-6702
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.48
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=d93d04a6-8d1e-420a-b04c-336b09a6dc9b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.24
RfKill:
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 04/02/01
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: Version 07.00T
dmi.board.name: MS-6702
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0123ABC
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Uknown Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.00
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrVersion07.00T:bd04/02/01:svnMSI:pnMS-6702:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnMS-6702:rvr1.0:cvnUknownChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrVersion1.00:
dmi.product.name: MS-6702
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC1: don 1229 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC0: don 1229 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Audigy2'/'SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350] (rev.4, serial:0x20021102) at 0xd000, irq 18'
Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9721,23'
Components : 'AC97a:83847609'
Controls : 210
Simple ctrls : 46
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'Headset'/'Logitech Logitech Wireless Headset at usb-0000:00:10.3-1, full speed'
Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
Components : 'USB046d:0a12'
Controls : 4
Simple ctrls : 2
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=8d93502d-81e2-488f-9bad-f1cae5d5329c
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1)
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
pan0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: MSI MS-6702
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=ced42286-c45e-4e7d-84d5-db95af1ab95a ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Regression: No
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34
Reproducible: Yes
RfKill:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Tags: lucid needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lp lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 04/02/01
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: Version 07.00T
dmi.board.name: MS-6702
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0123ABC
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Uknown Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.00
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrVersion07.00T:bd04/02/01:svnMSI:pnMS-6702:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnMS-6702:rvr1.0:cvnUknownChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrVersion1.00:
dmi.product.name: MS-6702
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
Okay, this is my bad. This isn't a bug.
It seems that when the computer is in Windows, the Logitech driver gives some instruction to the mouse on how to behave. When it shuts off (or sleeps), this information is discarded and it goes back to its "driverless" mode.