Allen,
What else is plugged into USB? (I.E. the output of lsusb) I've heard
rumors of certain other USB devices causing mouse problems in ubuntu
8.10. Usually this is a symptom of the system trying to set the pointer
via another device like a gamepad or such. I had a similar issue a few
years ago where a touchpad that was going bad interfered with my mouse.
You could try unplugging all other USB devices or input devices other
than the keyboard and mouse and see if the problem remains.
Ubuntu has moved mouse config out of xorg and into the HAL stuff. You
can use "xinput" to see what devices X is recognizing and how they are
configured. Try "xinput list" to find out what the id for your mouse
is. Then run "xinput test [idnum]" to capture all events from the
device to the console for a while. Ctrl+c will stop the capture. if
you run this you can see whether the events causing the motion come from
the mouse itself. (I recommend moving the mouse to the upper left corner
where it should report its location as 0,0) If no events show up then
the mouse isn't your cause. Test each input device in turn until you
find the one that is sending the spurious events.
I hope this helps.
-Mike
"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a
cradle." - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 19:59 -0700, Allen Brown wrote:
> > I've been using USB mice exclusively for several years. Wireless
> > ones, even. No problems. (Well, occasional problems, but not like
> > yours.)
> >
> > Your symptoms make it sound like you've got a really long polling
> > interval. It could be a driver problem. It could be an X11 problem.
> > If you're running a VM or a remote protocol like VNC, synergy, or
> > xtox, that could be the problem. Or maybe your X server is thrashing.
>
> A long polling interval would cause it to jump, but only to the
> next position, right? What I'm seeing is random directions. It
> generally trends in the right direction, but with huge jumps in
> random directions superimposed.
>
> > I don't know how to diagnose a driver problem, aside from looking at
> > the dmesg tea leaves.
>
> I just unplugged and replugged the mouse.
> [40519.102785] usb 5-2.3: USB disconnect, address 6
> [40526.628354] usb 5-2.4: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> address 7
> [40526.733423] usb 5-2.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [40526.742749] input: Logitech USB Gaming Mouse as
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-2/5-2.4/5-2.4:1.0/input/input13
> [40526.780410] input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech USB Gaming
> Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-2.4
> [40526.799774] hiddev96hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Device [Logitech USB Gaming
> Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-2.4
>
> > If it's a VM or remote protocol problem, you'd notice that it gets
> > better when you use the local, native host.
>
> I'm not using VM or remote. It's all local.
>
> > If it's an X11 problem, it could be that you've got multiple mouse
> > drivers configured in xorg.conf. The excerpt below is what I have and
> > you should have something similar. Specifically, you should NOT have
> > SampleRate or Resolution options configured (unless they really do
> > make your current mouse work better).
> >
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "CorePointer"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> > EndSection
> >
> > For more info, see the mousedrv(4) man page.
>
> That looks like what I've used in the past. And if my desktop
> was running I would check what's there. Currently I'm reduced
> to the laptop, which runs Ubuntu 8.10 I think. And it is running
> the latest xorg which has a very short xorg.conf file. Short
> enough I can include it in its entirety.
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Configured Video Device"
> Option "UseFBDev" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Configured Monitor"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Monitor "Configured Monitor"
> Device "Configured Video Device"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
> Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
> EndSection
>
> As you can see there is no mention of a mouse. And
> about half the time the system seems to ignore this
> file anyway since I don't always get the ctrl:nocaps
> mapping.
> --
> Allen Brown
> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
>
>
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Allen Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I've tried to USB mouses with Linux. They suck beyond belief.
> >> The graphic cursor is extremely jumpy, making it hard to
> >> click on anything, even the big targets. Small targets
> >> are extremely frustrating. I'm talking about jumping by
> >> up to 1/2 inch on the screen.
> >>
> >> Somebody is screwing up big time. Has anybody gotten any
> >> USB mouse to work with Linux? I've seen this with two
> >> different computers. I've seen it with two different
> >> mice. The behavior is consistent.
> >>
> >> Mind you, PS2 mice work fine. It's just USB that sucks.
> >> --
> >> Allen Brown
> >> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
> > --
> > Bob Miller K<bob>
> > [email protected]
>
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