Problem with MS wireless mouse in Ubuntu

steveland?

Hey,
Bought a wireless keyboard and mouse last week and stupidly forgot to check if Ubuntu would accept it...

Now unfortunately the keyboard powers up on boot, powers off just as grub loads and then powers on when the OS loads...

I've a PS2 keyboard plugged in just so I can choose Ubuntu in GRUB...

When Ubuntu loads the mouse and keyboard work fine apart from the fact that the mouse buttons keep pressing themselves randomly and pasting things in (random right clicks or scrollwheel clicks)... getting very annoying

Microsoft Standard Optical Wireless Mouse, USB...

Anyone any ideas on how to fix this?

Khannie

I think there was a thread about this in the comp forum recently. One person said they just left the PS/2 keyboard plugged in and on top of their monitor for the grub bit. Seems like shockin' stuff though. Wireless isn't exactly new technology or anything.

steveland?

Yeh that was my thread. I couldn't get the wireless to boot when GRUB was loading so someone suggested I plug in a PS2 keyboard which I did and now I can boot it...

Keyboard works fine in Ubuntu and I can load it using the PS2, thing is the mouse is going all skewy

Does anyone else have this mouse and any of these problems?

niallb

What's your BIOS settings like for legacy support for USB keyboards?

NiallB

steveland?

niallb wrote:

What's your BIOS settings like for legacy support for USB keyboards?

NiallB

legacy support?

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=23 < this is my motherboard if that helps at all... haven't changed the BIOS (afaik... bought it second hand from a boardster)

steveland?

Sorry about the bump... this is quite the pressing issue as I can't use Ubuntu at all at the moment and I want to mess around with stuff...

Anyone have any ideas?

I keep hearing about xorg.conf or something that sets up the mouse but couldn't find any answers

niallb

Hi Steveland?
legacy settings enable the PC to see USB mouse and keyboard from the word go - as if they were PS/2.
Have you taken a look at the BIOS settings under USB on your machine. Thanks for posting a link to the board's page, but you have it on your desk!

If the mouse kind of works but sends bad button events, it's almost certainly a case
of the wrong mouse type being selected.

Look for a line that starts:
Option Protocol and let us know
what protocol is being used.

It should look something like this;

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Simplest would be to use this command.
Exit out of X first, and type this in at a command prompt:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
You'll be asked some questions about your hardware. Pay close attention to how it detects your mouse, and look at other alternatives in the list.

Good luck,
NiallB

steveland?

Hmm... I've tried booting Ubuntu in recovery mode and running sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, tried all the combinations of settings for the mouse.

Edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to set Emulate3Buttons false, true, lots of other things and it stays the same...

I've kind of come to the conclusion that the dodgy part is that it reads the scroll wheel as being pressed randomly.

Any way I can disable the scroll wheel completely?

I can change around settings for scrolling but not completely disable the scroll wheel

niallb

niallb wrote:

i) What's your BIOS settings like for legacy support for USB keyboards?

ii) Look for a line that starts:
Option Protocol and let us know
what protocol is being used.

Emulate3Buttons has nothing to do with it.
Answer the questions!

NiallB

steveland?

niallb wrote:

Emulate3Buttons has nothing to do with it.
Answer the questions!

NiallB

i) There's no mention of Legacy or USB anywhere in my BIOS settings

ii) IMPS/2

parasite

i have the same mouse and had the same problem once(can't remember what distro) and it's definitely the option protocol that needs fixing, iirc it was either ps/2 or ExplorerPS/2 or maybe it was intellimouse, basically dick around restarting X each time

niallb

parasite is right,
that's what I'd suggest too.
I'd also go for the plain PS/2 to start with.

I remember now that I also had the problem when I installed hoary for the first time.
I went straight in and edited the Protocol
and as it worked, didn't think about it until now.
The most recent release, Breezy Badger,
didn't give me that problem on the same machine.

The question on legacy (which might also be described as DOS support for USB.) was aimed
at the booting issue, as it will tell the system to count a USB keyboard as acceptable when
it looks for a keyboard. The BIOS may also have a setting "Halt on all errors" which will cause it to stop if there's no keyboard.

NiallB