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Hacktivista

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[SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

I bought a Xiaomi MiMouse (XMSB01MW) which is wireless, I tried connecting it to a new laptop which I have with ArchLinux, it didn't work, the pointer does not move, though the mouse buttons indeed work.

Then I connected it to the PC I'm writing on now, it worked with no problems... After that I've updated packages through pacman (I did not update for a while, so did it yesterday). Now the mouse is showing the exact same behaviour, buttons work, pointer does not work.

I don't know what changed, but it dropped my mouse support (or at least made it trickier). Here the ouput of xinput

[~]$ xinput list-props 18
Device 'MiMouse Mouse':
	Device Enabled (143):	1
	Coordinate Transformation Matrix (145):	1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
	libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (280):	0
	libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (281):	0
	libinput Middle Emulation Enabled (282):	0
	libinput Middle Emulation Enabled Default (283):	0
	libinput Left Handed Enabled (284):	0
	libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (285):	0
	libinput Send Events Modes Available (265):	1, 0
	libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (266):	0, 0
	libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (267):	0, 0
	Device Node (268):	"/dev/input/event13"
	Device Product ID (269):	10007, 64
	libinput Drag Lock Buttons (286):	<no items>
	libinput Horizontal Scroll Enabled (287):	1

I do have other wireless mouse and it works with no problems. Any help would be great. Thanks!

Last edited by Hacktivista (2019-02-19 19:55:54)

Hacktivista

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

Anybody can help me define what's going on here? Where could I look for info in my system?

Last edited by Hacktivista (2018-08-22 20:43:32)

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

Bluetooth?  Or some magic USB dongle transceiver?

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Hacktivista

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

In this particular mouse both actually (it has a switch to work with bluetooth or the transceiver), pointer worked with both modes previous to system upgrade.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

Have you tried the linux-lts kernel?

Hacktivista

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

Nope, though I suspect it will allow me to use the mouse. Sadly I can't use the linux-lts kernel, because I'm using a GPD WIN 2 (pretty recent additions have been made to the kernel in respect to this laptop) and that would break other features. I'll try linux-lts in other laptop and post results.

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

Oh, wait -- I missed that the buttons work.   The example you showed has the mouse on /dev/input/event13.  If that is still true, try od -Ax -x /dev/input/event13
You may need to run that as root.  Move the mouse around -- when it moves, does that command spew hexadecimal numbers?  If not, how about when you click buttons.

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LinuCC

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

I got exactly the same problem (pointer does not move, but buttons, scrolling works) since yesterday after an `pacman -Syu` with an Expert Wireless Mouse.

@ewaller : I executed the command (in my case `sudo od -Ax -x /dev/input/event25`), but moving the mouse does not have any effect on the output; Only buttons & scrolling does.

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

Ah, as an interesting addon: I use this mouse in bluetooth mode, but it also has a toggle switch for WiFi / Bluetooth mode.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

@LinuCC What is the pacman.log entry for the update that caused this issue?

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

@loqs

/var/log/pacman.log:

[2018-08-21 16:02] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2018-08-21 16:02] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2018-08-21 16:03] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] running '70-dkms-remove.hook'...
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] transaction started
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] removed packer-io (1.2.4-1)
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] removed libx264 (2:152.20171224-2)
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded tzdata (2018e-1 -> 2018e-2)
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded glibc (2.28-1 -> 2.28-4)
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generating locales...
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   en_GB.UTF-8... done
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generation complete.
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded llvm-libs (6.0.1-3 -> 6.0.1-4)
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[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded openssl (1.1.0.h-1 -> 1.1.0.i-1)
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded shadow (4.5-4 -> 4.6-1)
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[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded libglvnd (1.0.0-1 -> 1.1.0-1)
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] warning: /etc/drirc installed as /etc/drirc.pacnew
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[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Created symlink /etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/p11-kit-server.socket → /usr/lib/systemd/user/p11-kit-server.socket.
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded tdb (1.3.15-1 -> 1.3.16-1)
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[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded python-setuptools (1:39.2.0-3 -> 1:40.0.0-1)
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[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded dhcpcd (7.0.5b-1 -> 7.0.7-1)
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] installed l-smash (2.14.5-1)
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] installed x264 (2:155.r0a84d986-2)
[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] upgraded ffmpeg (1:4.0.2-1 -> 1:4.0.2-2)
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[2018-08-21 16:09] [ALPM] installed libnumbertext (1.0-1)
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[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded libwbclient (4.8.3-2 -> 4.8.4-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded linux-firmware (20180717.8d69bab-1 -> 20180815.f1b95fe-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded linux (4.17.14.arch1-1 -> 4.18.3.arch1-1)
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[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded mplayer (38101-1 -> 38101-2)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded netctl (1.17-1 -> 1.18-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] :: The unit for profile 'wiredfreiheit' uses deprecated features.
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    Consider running: netctl reenable wiredfreiheit
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] :: The unit for profile 'wired-freiheit' uses deprecated features.
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]    Consider running: netctl reenable wired-freiheit
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[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded node-gyp (3.7.0-1 -> 3.8.0-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia (396.51-1 -> 396.51-5)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] installed packer (1.2.5-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded python-sqlalchemy (1.2.10-1 -> 1.2.11-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded python-websocket-client (0.48.0-2 -> 0.51.0-1)
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[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded qpdf (8.1.0-1 -> 8.2.1-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded xdg-utils (1.1.3-2 -> 1.1.3-3)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded qt5-declarative (5.11.1-1 -> 5.11.1-2)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded vala (0.40.8-1 -> 0.40.9-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox-host-modules-arch (5.2.16-11 -> 5.2.18-5)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox (5.2.16-2 -> 5.2.18-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded wpa_supplicant (1:2.6-11 -> 1:2.6-12)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded xapian-core (1:1.4.6-1 -> 1:1.4.7-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-devel (1.20.0-9 -> 1.20.1-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xdmx (1.20.0-9 -> 1.20.1-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xephyr (1.20.0-9 -> 1.20.1-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xnest (1.20.0-9 -> 1.20.1-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xvfb (1.20.0-9 -> 1.20.1-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xwayland (1.20.0-9 -> 1.20.1-1)
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] running '60-linux.hook'...
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] running '70-dkms-install.hook'...
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] running '90-linux.hook'...
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 4.18.3-arch1-1-ARCH
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [base]
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[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 4.18.3-arch1-1-ARCH
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [base]
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [block]
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]   -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] running 'detect-old-perl-modules.hook'...
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[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] running 'gtk-update-icon-cache.hook'...
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[2018-08-21 16:10] [ALPM] running 'update-desktop-database.hook'...
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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

If you try the linux-lts kernel or downgrading the kernel to 4.17.14.arch1-1 does that have any effect?

LinuCC

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

@loqs thanks, downgrading to the previous linux kernel version 4.17 worked flawlessly, mouse pointer has no problems anymore:

downgrade nvidia linux virtualbox-host-modules-arch
[...]
warning: downgrading package nvidia (396.51-5 => 396.51-1)
warning: downgrading package linux (4.18.3.arch1-1 => 4.17.14.arch1-1)
warning: downgrading package virtualbox-host-modules-arch (5.2.18-5 => 5.2.16-11)

LinuCC

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

Should a ticket be filed somewhere?

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

@LinuCC is this using USB or bluetooth?  You could compare the modules loaded between 4.17 and 4.18 as well as the dmesg outputs.
reporting-bugs  ideally after performing a git bisection.

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

@loqs Bluetooth.
Thanks for the pointers, if i have some time to spare I will try to find the problem.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

Some power saving?

sudo journalctl -b

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Amao_Three

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

I have the same quetion, the new kernal really let my wireless mouse (blurtooth or 2.4G) not work anymore. Just click buttons is fine.

progandy

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

I think this might be related kernel bugs
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200849
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200847

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

This problem should be resolved as of 4.18.6 (currently in [testing]), at least it does for my dual-mode mouse.

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Hacktivista

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Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade wireless mouse does not move pointer anymore

Indeed it's fixed in new kernel versions.