I am having inconsistent clicks with my logitech m510 mouse with my new linux computer. Everything about the mouse works properly (tracking, scrolling) except the clicking action, which works intermittently.
If I depress the mouse button for longer, it seems to be more reliable.
kernel version 6.1.0-1028-oem
ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
framework laptop 13
What I have tried:
I have dissasembled the mouse and cleaned it
I have swapped the mouse to my old windows laptop and it works fine, pointing to Ubuntu
I have tried disabling autosuspend in the kernel
I have tried inspecting the mouse with Solaar, most options are greyed out for my mouse
I have tried moving the mouse receiver to a different expansion slot
Using sudo apt update && sudo apt install piper -y should get you where you need to be. Should also include libratbag so that stuff isn’t grayed out (if the mouse is compatible, which it may be).
As to the behavior itself, this is tough. I seriously doubt the logs will tell you much.
An interesting way to “lazy grep” what is happening may be to run:
Failing that, it seems like you could get a stream of events from your mouse using this package libinput-debug-events(1) — libinput-tools — Debian testing — Debian Manpages (should be available on Ubuntu). If the click event does not register at all I would suggest that perhaps the mouse itself is at fault. Perhaps the physical switch in the mouse is damaged or in the process of failure.
But actually I think piper and ratbag will give you better troubleshooting tools anyway…
Really appreciate your help. This is the third forum I’ve tried to get help from
I am having trouble getting ratbag to cooperate with my mouse, it might just be unsupported, but this is a pretty run of the mill mouse, I had to manually add a device file in /usr/share/devices according to this tutorial.
Yet I am still not getting the mouse to show up in piper. Here’s some output from ratbagd that might be enlightening.
