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[UNSOLVED] Sometimes, mouse movement doesn't work, but buttons does

Hi, i was experimenting my new computer but there's one issue.
Sometimes, after booting into Linux, the cursor doesn't responds the mouse motion, but buttons still works, maybe caused by Logitech G203?
I have no clue.

Last edited by Programneer (2024-09-07 20:08:44)

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Re: [UNSOLVED] Sometimes, mouse movement doesn't work, but buttons does

An intermittent problem would suggest a hardware issue. Can you test the mouse on another machine? A (graphical) live ISO image can also be used to eliminate misconfiguration.

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seth

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Re: [UNSOLVED] Sometimes, mouse movement doesn't work, but buttons does

Logitech G203

That's a tailed one, right?
Plasma on X1 or wayland?

When this happens, check whether it generates movement events in "evtest" or "libinput debug-events".

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Programneer

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Re: [UNSOLVED] Sometimes, mouse movement doesn't work, but buttons does

Can you test the mouse on another machine?.

I'm already tested on Asus TUF Gaming F15 (pre-2021) previously with the same mouse and it works 100% of time.

Plasma on X11 or wayland?

I'm using X11.

When this happens, check whether it generates movement events in "evtest" or "libinput debug-events".

I used evtest and it doesn't seem to detect any movement, maybe an broken support?

Programneer

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Re: [UNSOLVED] Sometimes, mouse movement doesn't work, but buttons does

It seems i forgot to install amd-ucode since my computer has AMD Ryzen, thus solved the issue.
In my Asus laptop, i used intel-ucode some day, even without that, it still functions fine, despite having Intel Core i5-10300U.

Last edited by Programneer (2024-07-17 07:21:54)

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Re: [UNSOLVED] Sometimes, mouse movement doesn't work, but buttons does

That sounds very peculiar and not at all like something that I'd expect to get fixed by a microcode update for the CPU. Which Ryzen is it? amd-ucode furthermore only contains server/workstation microcodes (i.e. Epyc or Threadripper and the like) an actual BIOS/UEFI update I'd surmise to have a more direct effect on this. But technically it could be, it sounds very unlikely though.

In any case if you're sure that was the fix, please mark the thread as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.

seth

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Re: [UNSOLVED] Sometimes, mouse movement doesn't work, but buttons does

Check the older journals, maybe there's unrelated (but to the firmware) noise on the bus that prevents the signal?

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Programneer

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Re: [UNSOLVED] Sometimes, mouse movement doesn't work, but buttons does

Arch is kinda broken at the time of state

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