Tuesday, August 2, 2016

ubuntu 16.04 LTS - old crap cheap USB mouse issue

I've been testing several linux distributions in my old laptop - HP Pavilion dv6 - and I was stuck with one curious case involving an old crap cheap USB mouse.

During ubuntu installation (running live cd) the mouse works just fine, no problems whatsoever. It can be plug - unplugged many times and it just works. However, after completing the installation on the hard disk and boot, the USB mouse no longer works.

After looking into this matter in google, the solution was to remove gnome-software package, which is related to the ubuntu software center.

Another possible solution was:

# sudo rmmod usbhid
# sudo modprobe usbhid

However it is just a temporary solution and must be executed after reboot, for example.


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277837
http://askubuntu.com/questions/763511/usb-mouse-not-working-after-installing-ubuntu-16-04-persistent-fix
http://askubuntu.com/questions/763511/usb-mouse-not-working-after-installing-ubuntu-16-04-persistent-fix
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/95842/how-can-i-see-dmesg-output-as-it-changes
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-redhat-centos-kernel-usb-reset-high-speed-ehci_hcd/

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