Re: buggy MS intellimouse driver?

David Chmelik <[email protected]> wrote at 06:35 this Monday (GMT):
> 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?

I have the same bug with a modern Logitech mouse, though unplugging it
from the USB-C hub and directly into my laptop fixes it.
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