USB Mouse clicks get registered twice, sometimes

Hello all
I am using Arch Linux on my Thinkpad T61, and I usually have a USB mouse hooked up to it (Logitech Nano).
A while ago I started to do some tweaks in order to enable the Synaptics TouchPad and get proper scrolling behaviour on the TrackPoint. However, I must have done something, because ever since, many of my USB mouse clicks get registered as a double click (not always, but often).
I started doing some troubleshooting today, by commenting out parts of my xorg.conf file (I use evdev hotplugging, but I tought maybe Xorg was registering my mouse aswell) and I even booted up without an xorg.conf once, to no avail. The problem definately does not lie there.
The only policy file I have that has anything to do with a mouse is /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi.
[rob@rob-thinkpad ~]$ cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi
<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
</match>
Also, I found multiple entries for my mouse in /proc/bus/input/devices:
[rob@rob-thinkpad ~]$ egrep "Name|Handlers" /proc/bus/input/devices
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
H: Handlers=kbd event1
N: Name="ThinkPad Extra Buttons"
H: Handlers=kbd event2
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
H: Handlers=kbd event3
N: Name="Lid Switch"
H: Handlers=event4
N: Name="Sleep Button (CM)"
H: Handlers=kbd event5
N: Name="Video Bus"
H: Handlers=kbd event6
N: Name="PC Speaker"
H: Handlers=kbd event7
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
H: Handlers=mouse1 event8
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
H: Handlers=mouse2 event9
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
H: Handlers=kbd event10
N: Name="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
H: Handlers=mouse3 event11
N: Name="ThinkPad HDAPS joystick emulation"
H: Handlers=event12 js0
N: Name="ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer data"
H: Handlers=event13 js1
Could someone please help me solve this problem, for I have no more ideas how to go at this... Thanks
Last edited by robrene (2009-06-05 09:47:18)

It seems there are multiple entries for my USB mouse in /var/log/Xorg.0.log!
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event9"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found 16 mouse buttons
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found scroll wheel(s)
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as mouse
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech USB Receiver
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: always reports core events
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: Device: "/dev/input/event10"
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found 1 mouse buttons
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found scroll wheel(s)
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Found keys
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Configuring as keyboard
(II) Logitech USB Receiver: Adding scrollwheel support
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Logitech USB Receiver: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Receiver" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "de"
(**) Option "xkb_options" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
This looks pretty bad to me... The USB reciever is listed once as a mouse and once as a keyboard. Something went very awry here. This is the output after a fresh boot without xf86-input-mouse installed. The only remaining input drivers I have left from xf86 are:
[rob@rob-thinkpad ~]$ pacman -Q xf86-input-
xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-synaptics
edit
I removed xf86-input-keyboard as well now, still no change...
edit2
Aha! After some Googling and hooking up the mouse on a Windows XP machine, I noticed that this is a problem with this specific mouse. Under Windows XP, I get the same behaviour (often a double click, sometimes no click at all). It seems it is time to find the warranty papers for this baby. In case anyone ever reads this, this happened to me on a Logitech VX Nano, after about 5-10months of usage (I don't recall when I bought it exactly).
Last edited by robrene (2009-06-05 15:14:23)

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I've experimented with other mouses just to see if there'd be a difference, but the problem is definitely with the computer. All plug-in or wireless mouses have the same results. Right click still won't work.

ITunes store gets buggy with Genius on, won't register mouse clicks?

I am having a problem in the iTunes store on my MacBook Pro. If I turn on Genius, iTunes ends up not responding to my mouse clicks. I will have to click multiple times in quick succession to get it to register the click, then often those multiple clicks will finally register and it will tell me I've already purchased an item (several times) because the clicks will finally get recognized.
Anyone else finding Genius to cause problems with their mouse in the store? At least, I think it's Genius, because when I turned it off, my mouse clicks were once again recognized on the first click.

Hi,
I had the same problem once in a while, until I noticed that it was not actually an iTunes issue.
Don't ask me why, but I noticed that iTunes did not have the "focus" (in spite of the iTune Application label that shows that iTunes is the front app). So "double clicking" is a way to first get the focus, then click. Then iTunes' main window loses the focus again. Again, don't ask me why.
My solution is to CMD-TAB until iTunes is the front application and then single click works again.
So pay attention the next time it happens and see if it works for you.
I hope this helps.
/p

I have a regular usb mouse and it isn't working. It sometimes clicks, but it can't make the cursor move. The red light will not turn on.

I have been using a mouse with my MacBook Pro for a very very long time now:
Optical USB Mouse:
Product ID:    0xc016
Vendor ID:    0x046d (Logitech Inc.)
Version:     3.40
Speed:    Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:    Logitech
Location ID:    0x06200000 / 3
Current Available (mA):    500
Current Required (mA):    100
I'm running OS 10.6.8 on a MacBookPro that is fairly old.
The mouse is detected on the USB port, either one, but the red light won't light anymore so I can't use it to move the cursor. I've tried rebooting, I've tried the cammand-option.P.R thing. Still no red light.
Help?

Mouse Gas?
I took both of them to work and both worked fine in a different Mac laptop. I brought home two other mice and they both work here in my home computer. That works, but I wish I knew why the first two don't work at home because the logitec mouse I bought for home has very light action and the center wheel needs only a very light touch. I really really liked it and can't find one like it to replace it with.

Left and right side of screen does not register mouse clicks.

The left and right side of my screen (when maximized) does not register a mouse click. I would estimate about 10 to 15 pixels in (top to bottom) before a button will register a click.
If I work with in firefox not maximized everything works fine. As it stands I have had to add buttons to the left and right side of my Firefox navigation area to utilize the back and home button. I am also not able to use my scroll bar do to this situation with out connecting an external mouse.
Operating system: Windows 7 Professional (64bit)
Resolution 1280x800
Computer: HP TouchSmart tm2 (1070us series)
This laptop does have the touchpad type mouse, I do not think this is the problem though as it will work if firefox is not maximized.
Assistance with this would be appreciated. I Love firefox but this is to much of an annoyance to deal with continually.

Not sure if its ever overheated... I've never left it in a hot car if thats what you mean. Sometimes it gets very hot if I'm using EDGE for a while. I don't push hard which is why I don't think I caused it...
I will bring it in this weekend and see what they say.
I also think that the speakerphone sounds fuzzy and muffled a lot more than it did when I first bought it. So just another reason to bring it in.

Usb mouse double click

Hi,
Im using fluxbox as window manager and after some upgrades the mouse very often doing double click, if I click only once. On touchpad is all right, so I dont know where is the problem. I tryed change xorg configuration - other protocol and some options, but nothing helped. I also tryed change speed double click, but nothing changed too.
My xorg config is now:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
generated by hwd
Thanks for all replies
edit: I have kernel 2.6.33.4 and before in kernel 2.6.33.3 "mouse bug" was there too.
Last edited by aivi (2010-05-15 11:47:40)

edit: So Its not working well, xev show still that I pressed and released twice button, any ideas?
In blackbox too. Its somewhere else.
--------So it was by .fluxbox/keys I tried move them somewhere else and restart X and Its working right now. -------
Last edited by aivi (2010-05-15 13:25:12)

What kind of bluetooth dongle(usb) should I get to use my Magic Mouse properly?

My Mac Pro doesn't have bluetooth. What kind of bluetooth dongle(usb) should I get to use my Magic Mouse properly? I already have one, but it makes the mouse seriously lacking.

I keep the dongle plugged into the back of my apple 27" monitor so that means it is only 1 to 2 feet away from the mouse. Don't plug it into the mac pro itself if that is at any distance from the mouse. The closer you can keep the dongle to the mouse the better.
Do a smc and pram reset.
If all is lost, and you have xcode installed then you can do a bluetooth factory reset.
Note that if you should sleep your machine, power is off the usb's, so the dongle is off. This means you cannot wake the machine with any BT devices like the mouse (I use a wired keyboard). Also sometimes upon waking the machine the mouse does not immediately re-pair (maybe 20% of the time). So you have to flip its switch to get the system's attention.
While I do have internal BT, using the dongle disables the internal (at least for 2010 mac pro's).
And of course BT would go inactive if you pulled the dongle out!

USB Mouse clicks get registered twice, sometimes

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