Re: [gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On 08/08/2014 10:46 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday, August 08, 2014 10:30:55 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> 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/input
>> 12 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.
> Looks like quite a few people have issues with that mouse. Googling for
> "idVendor=045e, idProduct=0084" brings up several hits with people describing
> what you are seeing.
>
> Basically, it looks like the latest firmware on the mouse seems to have some
> powersaving functions that don't work properly.
>
> Can you test with a different mouse to see if that one works?
> Alternatively, disable USB powersaving:
>
> # for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend;
>     do echo 2 > $i;
>     done
>
> # for foo in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/level;
>   do echo on > $foo;
>   done
>
> --
> Joost
>
I've done as suggested above as well as set AUTOSUSPEND_USBID_BLACKLIST
in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/usb-autosuspend.conf to the ID of my USB
mouse. So far the mouse has been working OK.

Thanks for your help.