Post #398423

2026-02-17 20:55 UTC

This started happening a few months ago, I would be minding my own Ubuntu business and then suddenly I can’t left click. After much digging and stupid AI querying, I added something to disabled power management to my boot sequence. That seems to minimize the problems but I still get the problem every 5 minutes or so. To temporarily fix the problem I Ctrl-alt F3 then F2 to come back to. GNOME. I tried with a mint usb and I got the same problem. I thought it was then maybe a mouse problem but the pointer does the same no matter what mouse I use and every mouse I tested worked fine on another Ubuntu of the same release. So I think maybe it is some sort of hardware and driver combination and to power management. I see lots of posts of past years but nothing more recently, but no real solutions or explanations for what might be happening. Okay looks like a start up script will be the thing to do next.

Replies (3)

@undrwater@lemmy.world 2026-02-17 21:14

You've attempted various USB ports?

Open ##2655198
@detonational_VuSE@lemmy.ml 2026-02-18 04:00

Your problem is probably an ACPI setting, if that helps you look up an explanation. Try putting usbcore.autosuspend=-1 in the kernel options on your bootloader. If that works, that's definitely the problem, so then either you're good without it or if you still want autosuspend for everything else (good for battery life on a laptop) you should look into a more fine grain approach.

Open ##2655206
@altphoto@lemmy.today 2026-02-20 03:41

So I created a service and a timer. the service is supposed to kill the mouse: mouse-refresh.service [Unit] Description=Refresh Logitech mouse event2 [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'udevadm trigger --sysname-match=event2 --action=change' the timer trigers it every 5 minutes [Unit] Description=Refresh mouse every 5 minutes on desktop Requires=graphical-session.target [Timer] OnUnitActiveSec=5m Persistent=true [Install] WantedBy=graphical-session.target but then I realized that it doesn't work. sudo udevadm trigger --sysname-match=event2 --action=change doesn't do it but sudo udevadm trigger seems to work. however I have stuff on the USB system that I don't want to be resetting every 5 minutes. I also added the thing to the grub startup: sudo nano /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash threadirqs usbcore.autosuspend=-1" it doesn't seem to do the job. only ctrl-alt F3 then ctrl-alt F2 does it. frustrated but continuing with sudo udevadm trigger for now

Open ##2655208