I just hate that! Now I have no idea what made it go away.
Thanks in advance to all who tried to help or read my OP.
~~~ 0;-/ Dan
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Friends, I'm desperate for help here. I'm grateful in advance for any help available.
I'm trying to use a Logitech TrackMan Wheel under Mint 21.1. This device has been around forever in internet time so I might need legacy drivers or something. I'm completely stumped.
Is anyone using a trackball and having trouble with a "freeze" from time to time? This happens regardless of the active application or for attempts to select one of the desktops or status line items.
I first noticed this when I "switch users" or "wake from sleep" or "wake from hibernate."
{ASIDE — While I type this it occurs to me that I have not looked at the device ownership or permissions. Since it is my workstation without any other people involved, all "users" have 'admin', 'root', 'wheel' or similar "super user" membership.}
Several things happen during the "freeze".
- the ball does not move the mouse pointer
- neither the left or right button result in any happening
- the wheel does not scroll the current page
My Workstation ... System76 Adder-WS(addrw2)
prompt$ screenfetch -n
OS: Linuxmint 21.1 vera
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.2.0-76060200-generic
Uptime: 2d 3h 46m
Packages: 4952
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Resolution: 3840x2160
DE: GNOME 41.7
WM: Muffin
WM Theme: Mint-X-Orange (Mint-Y-VBB)
GTK Theme: Mint-Y-Aqua [GTK2/3]
Icon Theme: Mint-Y-Aqua
Font: Ubuntu 12
Disk: 499G / 1.8T (29%)
CPU: Intel Core i7-10875H @ 16x 5.1GHz [47.0°C]
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super
RAM: 6987MiB / 15684MiB
My Devices
prompt$ ls -l /dev/input/m*
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 63 Mar 23 11:50 /dev/input/mice
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 32 Mar 23 11:50 /dev/input/mouse0
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 33 Mar 23 11:50 /dev/input/mouse1
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 34 Mar 25 13:43 /dev/input/mouse2
Reply with any other information you need to help diagnose things.
Thank you in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan