usb mouse middle mouse button ButtonReleases spontaneously during downpress

[Petter Sundlöf]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-evdev

Started happening after upgrading to 9.04 and xserver 1.6

My external logitech mouse (optical with microusb receiver) started working oddly when using the middle mouse button combined with Alt to resize windows.

The middle mouse button spontaneously Releases while holding it down. example: alt-MMB to resize a window is not usable since it for no apparent reason releases the button press without my doing anything.
I have tried the same mouse on xserver 1.5.2 (ubuntu 8.10), and there it works as expected.

dmesg output:
[ 567.263006] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.0/input/input15
[ 567.309505] generic-usb 0003:046D:C526.0005: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0
[ 567.321597] input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-2/6-2:1.1/input/input16
[ 567.352802] generic-usb 0003:046D:C526.0006: input,hiddev96,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Device [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input1

Xorg.0.log:
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event7"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found 1 mouse buttons
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found keys
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as keyboard
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: xkb_rules: "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: xkb_model: "pc105"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "se"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: xkb_layout: "se"
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event6"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found 16 mouse buttons
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as mouse
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) set acceleration profile 0

Running "xev" doing MMB pressdown & hold and moving it around a bit:
(see attached xev.log)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.1.1-1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Petter Sundlöf (petter-sundlof)]

I should emphasize that the touchpad (laptop is Vaio VGN-FW21M) does not exhibit this problem, it's only the USB mouse.

[Petter Sundlöf (petter-sundlof)]

Is there any way to get more debug information from evdev?

Here are the relevant sections from Xorg.0.log from first an Ubuntu 8.10 machine, where the mouse works properly, and then 9.04 where the mmb has problems:

8.10:

(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event6"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found 16 mouse buttons
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as mouse
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event7"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found 1 mouse buttons
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found keys
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as keyboard
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: xkb_rules: "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: xkb_model: "pc105"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "se"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: xkb_layout: "se"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200

9.04

(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found 16 mouse buttons
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as mouse
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event5"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found 1 mouse buttons
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found keys
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as keyboard
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: xkb_rules: "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: xkb_model: "pc105"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "se"
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: xkb_layout: "se"

The only ...

[Petter Sundlöf (petter-sundlof)]

Here's output from evtest.c on /dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Receiver-event-mouse while attempting to do alt-MMB (see evtest.log)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi Petter,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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If you are the original reporter and can still reproduce the issue on
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  apport-collect 367932

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.