I’m running openSuse 11.0 32-bit on a Dell Latitude with an nVidia graphics card. Desktop is KDE 3.5. My mouse is a Logitech LX7 Wireless Laser mouse.
The mouse “kind of” works, but regularly, when I click on a link or button, nothing happens for a few seconds - I need to re-click before getting the response.
It’s pretty annoying!!!
When I check the hardware config under YaST, it tells me that I have a Dell mouse installed. However, I cannot use SaX2 to make the changes as it gives me a bad configuration error (something to do with nVidia incompatability). Any time in the past that I’ve used SaX2 to update the hardware, my video has completely failed and I’ve had to revert to the original Xorg.conf file.
I don’t particularly want all the fancy mouse features (scrolling, back a page, forward a page etc), but I do want it to respond when it should. CAn anyone help?
that is, could it be a momentary overload of your system by something
else going on, and the result of the mouse-click takes a micro-second
waiting to be serviced by the system?
like, have you yet disabled beagle?
do you have cpu intensive processes running in the background
(streaming music or vidio, moving huge files from one place to
another, etc etc etc)…
or, is this delay always happening but just when you try to make a
certain thing happen…like, on a certain web site, all of the
buttons (or whatever) work slowly…or require two clicks instead of
one…
like that? (i ask about the web page because yesterday i swear i was
on a page that would NOT respond the first click, ever…but, always
responded the second click…i figured it was a java-scripting error
on the site…)
oh, and have you yet installed he nVidia driver, it is generally more
efficient than the default nv driver…
I don’t have beagle on my system - it was making browsing very slow. I also used the nVidia drivers from the nVidia site - I can’t get the YaST ones to work.
The problem comes up irrespective of the site that I’m on. Any other ideas? Really appreciate your input.
from your first post i gather that sometimes the mouse works exactly
as you expect, but then at other times it is very slow responding…
if that is true you might try opening a terminal window and starting
an instance of top…
then, just as the problem begins look at top and see what is soaking
up the RAM and CPU cycles…that may give you a hint about what the
REAL cause of the problem is…[another way to say that is: in my
experience either the mouse WORKS, or not…it doesn’t work ok some
of the time, but not all of the time…so, i GUESS something else is
going on…]
I have been experiencing the very same problem with my Logitech wireless mouse for a long time now - since OpenSuSE 10.3. The mouse works well for a while and at other times it just stalls. It does not seem to be affected by high CPU use though I seem to see more problems when network activity is high (using a wireless network card). When I connect a very cheap, simple wired USB mouse it works consistently well all the time.
This is the Logitech mouse I have problems with:
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 046d:c510 Logitech, Inc. Cordless Mouse
Sep 28 20:24:16 mandrax kernel: usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
Sep 28 20:24:16 mandrax kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Sep 28 20:24:16 mandrax kernel: input: Logitech USB Receiver as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input11
Sep 28 20:24:16 mandrax kernel: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1
Sep 28 20:24:16 mandrax kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c510
Sep 28 20:24:16 mandrax kernel: usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Sep 28 20:24:16 mandrax kernel: usb 2-1: Product: USB Receiver
Sep 28 20:24:16 mandrax kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Logitech
This may apply to both people using a wireless mouse. The frequency used to talk to logitech mice sometimes is a harmonic of the frequency used by wireless networks. When this occurs, the network of both devices can be slowed as packets must be resent until correctly seen at the other end. Logictech has suggested moving the orientation of the wireless devices although this is not always possible.
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