Howdy, I've been having trouble with USB mice on my laptop, with the mouse pointer and the scroll wheel not responding all the time. It's not until I click either button that the mouse starts responding again.
The output taken from /var/log/messages shown below does not seem out of the ordinary: Aug 8 09:32:56 localhost kernel: [ 5692.801085] usb 4-2: new low-speed USB device number 6 using uhci_h cd Aug 8 09:32:56 localhost kernel: [ 5692.968100] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct =0084 Aug 8 09:32:56 localhost kernel: [ 5692.968109] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, Seri alNumber=0 Aug 8 09:32:56 localhost kernel: [ 5692.968116] usb 4-2: Product: Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse Aug 8 09:32:56 localhost kernel: [ 5692.968121] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Microsoft Aug 8 09:32:56 localhost kernel: [ 5692.995929] input: Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse as /devi ces/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/0003:045E:0084.0005/input/input12 Aug 8 09:32:56 localhost kernel: [ 5692.996296] hid-generic 0003:045E:0084.0005: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2/input0 Aug 8 09:32:56 localhost mtp-probe: checking bus 4, device 6: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb4/4-2" Aug 8 09:32:56 localhost mtp-probe: bus: 4, device: 6 was not an MTP device Your advice would be appreciated. Alexander Kapshuk.
