Mouse does not work, but detected in Ubuntu 20.04

Prithvish Baidya

12/11/22, 12:59 PM

I have a USB mouse that does not work on Ubuntu, but does work on Windows on the same machine (dual boot). Mouse is detected in xinput as well as lsusb. (USB optical mouse)

❯ xinput -list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SINO WEALTH Redgear Shadow Blade Mechanical Keyboard Consumer Control id=15   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SINO WEALTH Redgear Shadow Blade Mechanical Keyboard Mouse    id=18   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE  Consumer Control       id=8    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE                         id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH Redgear Shadow Blade Mechanical Keyboard  id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH Redgear Shadow Blade Mechanical Keyboard  id=14   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH Redgear Shadow Blade Mechanical Keyboard Consumer Control id=16   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SINO WEALTH Redgear Shadow Blade Mechanical Keyboard System Control   id=17   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE  Consumer Control       id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE  Keyboard               id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE  System Control         id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]

The mouse has 5 buttons (left, right, scroll, and 2 extra programmable buttons). Machine has an MSI B550 Tomahawk motherboard and Ryzen 5600X CPU if that matters.

Weirdly enough, the mouse seems to mostly work when instead of plugging directly, it's plugged through a USB hub. However, even this seems to stop working intermittently, although unplugging and replugging fixes this.

Even weirder is that other mice seem to work. If I didn't know better I would think that the mouse does not support linux.

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user535733

12/11/22, 1:48 PM

The Title and first paragraph seem misleading. In the third paragraph, we learn that the mouse "*seems to mostly work when instead of plugging directly, it's plugged through a USB hub*" which suggests that the mouse does indeed work properly under some circumstances. "mostly work" is too vague to offer useful advice. A manufacturer or model of the mouse would be useful.

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Mouse does not work, but detected in Ubuntu 20.04

TH: เมาส์ไม่ทำงาน แต่ตรวจพบใน Ubuntu 20.04

RO: Mouse-ul nu funcționează, dar a fost detectat în Ubuntu 20.04

RU: Мышь не работает, но обнаружена в Ubuntu 20.04

VI: Chuột không hoạt động, nhưng được phát hiện trong Ubuntu 20.04

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