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[SOLVED] Joystick - mouse conflict
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 6:56 pm
by remarkrv
I have MX Linux installed on three computers. XFCE on two laptops and KDE version on a desktop. I found that plugging in a USB Logitech Extreme 3D joystick into any of the computers creates a conflict with the mouse. Both joystick and mouse control the cursor. I noticed that when plugging into one of the laptops a brief message popped up reporting “sticky keys – sticky keys are enabled”. All computers are using a wireless mouse. I previously was running Xubuntu on the laptops and Kubuntu on the desktop without this problem. I would like to resolve this issue and would appreciate any suggestions.
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System: Host: <filter> Kernel: 4.19.0-13-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-13-amd64
root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-19.3_x64 patito feo November 11 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC
v: 0690130000204610000620100 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3568 v: 21.3A serial: <filter> BIOS: Insyde v: F.53
date: 10/24/2012
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 43.2 Wh condition: 43.5/43.5 Wh (100%) volts: 12.6/10.8
model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Charging
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M215 serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K360 serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: AMD A4-3305M APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64
type: MCP arch: Fusion family: 12 (18) model-id: 1 stepping: N/A microcode: 3000027
L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm bogomips: 7585
Speed: 819 MHz min/max: 800/1900 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 863 2: 864
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Sumo [Radeon HD 6480G] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel
bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:9649
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD SUMO2 (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-13-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: AMD BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1
chip ID: 1002:1714
Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1022:780d
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-13-amd64
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: rtl8192ce v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8176
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8136
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 31.27 GiB (3.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-22Z10T1 size: 931.51 GiB
block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm
serial: <filter> rev: 1A04 scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 927.79 GiB size: 913.13 GiB (98.42%) used: 31.27 GiB (3.4%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 44.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 50 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot/ all main
2: deb http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot/ all main
3: deb http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot all main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mdoyen-ubuntu-homebank-hirsute.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mdoyen/homebank/ubuntu/ hirsute main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb https://mirror.genesisadaptive.com/mxlinux/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info: Processes: 177 Uptime: 31m Memory: 7.28 GiB used: 1.29 GiB (17.7%) Init: SysVinit
v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in
running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36
Re: Joystick - mouse conflict
Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 7:57 pm
by SwampRabbit
Sorry to give a short only semi-helpful reply, but doing so from my phone and not at a computer.
This has been covered on the forums a few times, give a search, should be a easy fix.
Also not sure what is up with those first few entries in your repos. Did you add those?
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http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot/ all main
Anything from the homebank PPA probably isn’t causing your specific issue, but we don’t recommend adding PPAs because they aren for Ubuntu based distros not Debian ones. Not sure if we have homebank or not, check both the MX Stable and MX Test Repos via MX Package Installer, but we package things on request if possible.
Re: Joystick - mouse conflict
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:14 am
by JayM
Homebank 5.2.7 is in the MX Stable Repo and 5,4,3 which is the latest stable version is in the Test Repo (in MX Package Installer) so there's no need to add Ubuntu PPAs to get it unless you're one of the app's testers, testing the 5.5rc prerelease version. Like SwampRabbit said, the PPA isn't causing your current issue but adding them will lead to system problems sooner or later and could cause you to have to reinstall MX from scratch and start over.
Re: Joystick - mouse conflict
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:56 am
by OoglaBoogla
I just got on the forum to talk about this same issue. A search of previous posts turned up nothing relevant. This is obviously a MX-specific issue. I've never had this problem with any other distro. I am actually running the cinnamon desktop on MX, but logged into XFCE just to make sure. It was the same. I had decided to install Nestopia and play around with my old NES ROMs. I have SNES USB joypads to use with NES and SNES emulators, exactly like the original SNES controllers. When I plug one in running MX Linux, it is installed as a mouse. The arrows move the cursor, and if I remember correctly, the A and B buttons act as left and right click. The logitech mouse plugged into the system still works as well. The SNES controller makes a nice mouse, but I wanted to play Super Mario Brothers with it. Guess I'll try it on Linux Mint. Here's my system info, in case anybody wants to laugh at it.
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System: Host: <filter> Kernel: 4.19.0-13-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.19.0-13-amd64
root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-19.3_x64 patito feo May 31 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: 760GM-P23(FX) (MS-7641) v: 3.0 serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 17.10 date: 08/10/2012
CPU: Topology: 6-Core model: AMD FX-6300 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bulldozer
family: 15 (21) model-id: 2 stepping: N/A microcode: 6000852 L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 41998
Speed: 1411 MHz min/max: 1400/3500 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1400
2: 1400 3: 1400 4: 1400 5: 1779 6: 1729
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:68f9
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-13-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1002:4383
Device-2: AMD Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series]
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
chip ID: 1002:aa68
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-13-amd64
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e800 bus ID: 02:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 698.59 GiB used: 219.38 GiB (31.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM009-2DM14C size: 465.76 GiB block size:
physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: CC46 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST3250310AS size: 232.83 GiB block size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: A scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 35.16 GiB size: 34.35 GiB (97.72%) used: 12.38 GiB (36.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda6
ID-2: /boot raw size: 499.0 MiB size: 475.2 MiB (95.23%) used: 216.7 MiB (45.6%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8
ID-3: /home raw size: 34.67 GiB size: 33.87 GiB (97.71%) used: 5.98 GiB (17.7%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
ID-4: swap-1 size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60)
cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 23.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 60 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info: Processes: 238 Uptime: 1h 33m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 1.08 GiB (13.9%) Init: SysVinit
v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in
running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36
Re: Joystick - mouse conflict
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 2:06 am
by OoglaBoogla
Oops. Sorry I broke the system info formatting.
Re: Joystick - mouse conflict
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 2:36 am
by JayM
Here's how to fix it.
Please edit your post using the pencil icon
to wrap the information inside of code tags. Example: [
code]log file contents, configuration file contents and terminal text go here[/code]
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to make it look like this, which is a lot easier to read for large amounts of text:
1. It really stands out as being separate from the text that you're typing due to the different background and font colors
2. It also puts it inside of its own little frame with its own scrollbars, making it easier to navigate.
To do this, select the text by dragging your mouse over it while holding the left button down then click the </> icon in the forum's editor's toolbar and click the Submit button.
Thanks.
Re: Joystick - mouse conflict
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 5:48 am
by OoglaBoogla
Thanks, @JayM. By the way, one more bit of info... When I open HardInfo to look at my devices, the USB gamepad is shown in the USB Devices category as a Dragonrise USB Gamepad. It is also shown in the Input Devices section as a USB Gamepad. Clearly, the system knows what it is. But it still works as a mouse, and can't be used as a gamepad. Very strange. I also tried using QJoyPad to see if it may help the system isolate it as only a gamepad. That didn't work, because it has to work as a gamepad before the program can do anything with it.
Re: Joystick - mouse conflict
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:19 pm
by Amigo
I was having the same problem. Try removing xserver-xorg-input-joystick (in my case that was the solution)
Re: Joystick - mouse conflict (SOLVED)
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:41 pm
by remarkrv
Deleting the joystick driver xserver-xorg-input-joystick eliminated the mouse and joystick conflict. I installed JStest-GTK to calibrate the joystick. Thanks all for the suggestions. I wonder what the issue is with the joystick driver.
Re: Joystick - mouse conflict
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 9:12 pm
by JayM
xserver-xorg-input device entries are system-level devices for mice and keyboards, so it's probably there to let you use your joystick as a pointing device (mouse.)
If this is solved to your satisfaction, could you please edit your original post #1 at the very top of the topic by clicking the pencil tip icon, the one circled in red in my screenshot image below (yours won't have the red circle)
and add [SOLVED] at the front of the subject? This will make it easier for others when they search the forum looking for a solution to the same problem. Thanks.