Re: buggy MS intellimouse driver?

On 2024-03-11 07:35, David Chmelik wrote:
> We use many GNU/Linux with MS Intellimouse (four-button) from late 1990s
> Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 (mostly relatively new overstock) to recent
> years so-called  Classic Intellimouse.  Since 2010s we've had more & more
> problems with these and I wonder if the driver has serious/critical bugs.
> 
> We've used them (since 1997) on Slackware, Devuan, Kubuntu, Mint, KDE Neon
> GNU/Linuxes and I also tested OpenSUSE, RedHat/clones (Rocky, Fedora),
> Gentoo, Arch (SystemRescue) GNU/Linuxes.
> 
> Daily on every single one, occasionally/regularly mouse moves
> intermittently/'choppy' or even stops for maybe 10 to 30+secs or just
> permanently until unplug & replug or restarting X or rebooting.  It
> happens with both Intellimouse Explorer & 'Classic'.
> 
> My parents thought the problem might be mouse-pad, so they removed it and
> used mouse on table, which didn't fix anything.  We noticed Intellimouse
> Classic doesn't seem to work much at all (unusable) on standard/classic
> blue mouse-pads but works on a white one (better than on a table that
> looks like woodgrain).
> 
> I also use plain two-button USB MS mice mostly on servers I don't use GUI
> much if at all, so don't know it's a general MS mouse problem but their
> other mice have different drivers (when you install Slackware you select
> from MS Intellimouse or other USB or PS/2 mice).
> 
> We also briefly tested Wayland possibly with same problem, but don't
> consider it 'production ready' for many reasons (nor do some/many others).
> 
> The 'choppy' Intellimouse problem has happened across at least six
> different desktop PCs (and maybe some laptops) on every GNU/Linux they
> have/had.  I don't notice the problem on FreeBSD UNIX (which of course
> originally is designed/standardized/engineered with a plan ahead of time
> instead of 'make it up as you go along').
> 
> Did anyone else have this happen and is there any solution or anywhere I
> can report bugs?

Each distribution has its own bug system. I know that on openSUSE you 
could report this on its Bugzilla system. They would probably tell you 
to report upstream somewhere.


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Cheers, Carlos.