Comment 20 for bug 1006145

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Gotit (sca957) wrote : Re: Logitech Mouse not recognised on boot in 12.04

I have trouble with Logitech mice (m325 & m510) working on 1 of 3 machines running 12.04 32bit.
The machine with the trouble is the newest of the three and originally had a secure boot
version of Windoz 8. Under Windoz 8 the mice worked fine. I changed the BIOS to be non-UEFI OS,
dumped Windoz 8 and installed 12.04. The mice register and show when I do a lsusb, but they
fail to work. On the 2 other older machines the mice work great.

I tried running this fix in the terminal:
modprobe -r hid_logitech_dj
modprobe hid_logitech_dj

but NG.

I also tried placing it as typed above in /etc/rc.local, again NG.

However, I seem to have better luck when running it this way:
modprobe -r hid_logitech_dj && modprobe hid_logitech_dj

Maybe something with slamming the driver back in at machine speed!
Of course, if it worked once, why not hammer it, so I added the above
line to /etc/rc.local 5 times just to be sure :)

The most depressing part of this is that my M$ mouse works on the troublesome machine
flawlessly. And then to add insult to injury, the new Logitech mouse package come with
a linux penguin icon on the package!! One of the few off the shelf products that actually
says it has linux support. How sad.

Maybe there is some contention between newer BIOS with UEFI support and 12.04 causing the issue?