Old Feb 2019: Collecting further mice with disconnect issues

[sriemer]

I've fixed four mice at upstream Linux kernel with HID_QUIRK_ALWAYS_POLL (0x00000400) already.

So please let me know if your mouse disconnects every x seconds or every minute when no user-space driver is running and nothing polls the mouse this way (usually on a virtual terminal [VT] without gpm running).

Please test if the kernel boot option

usbhid.quirks=0xaaaa:0xbbbb:0x00000400

fixes the issue while aaaa is the USB vendor ID and bbbb is the USB product ID in hex from lsusb or lsusb -vvv output.

If this fixes your issue, please let me know the USB IDs, your mouse model, which distro you use and if you need it for kernel < 4.16.

Thanks in advance!

[sriemer]

A further possible candidate is the Acer Lite-On SM-9020B with 1000 CPI. Seems to be a PixArt mouse as well with USB IDs 04ca:0061.

Reference: https://askubuntu.com/questions/792335/kernel-install-issue-new-usb-device-found-product-usb-optical-mouse-repeating

Second reference: http://www.at91.com/viewtopic.php?t=26401

Third reference complaining about reconnects: http://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2016-October/027376.html

Fourth reference: https://e2e.ti.com/support/processors/f/791/p/679577/2509335#

As usual: I need confirmation that kernel boot option usbhid.quirks=0x04ca:0x0061:0x00000400 helps to prepare the upstream patch.

[sriemer]

Another possible candidate (Chicony PixArt mouse):
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920957
USB IDs 04f2:0939.
Second reference: https://bugs.centos.org/file_download.php?file_id=24595&type=bug

Patch sent to upstream by Oleksandr Natalenko (RedHat):
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190621091736.14503-1-oleksandr@redhat.com/T/#u

[sriemer]

Lenovo PixArt mouse 17ef:602e: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/08/msg00418.html
Second ref: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=63379

[sriemer]

Jesis J1 PixArt mouse 1a81:2804: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107785
Uncertain about this one. No second ref, too rare, no disconnect visible.

[sriemer]

Another Lenovo PixArt mouse 17ef:6019: https://forums.fogproject.org/assets/uploads/files/1534429606509-bzimage41713m.log
Second reference: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5404600
Third reference: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/red-hat-31/sshd-hangs-rsyslog-related-4175550947-print/

[dschepler]

My mouse disconnected almost exactly every 60 seconds. USB ID 0461:4d65 Strings simply say "PixArt USB Optical Mouse'. It has Alienware branding (and came with my Alienware machine from c. Feb 2019.)

Confirmed that booting with usbhid.quirks=0x0461:0x4d65:0x00000400 resolved the issue for me.

[sriemer]

Thanks for the report. I will send the upstream patch. Which distro are you using so that a backport of the patch can be requested afterward?

[dschepler]

Actually, no distro - I'm building my own system (roughly based on Linux From Scratch at the initial stages, but with some departures even then). So once it makes it into upstream kernel, I'll probably build the updated kernel version soon afterward, and that will be that.
(Though I did go back to the Debian unstable system that I used for the initial installation to bootstrap from, and I saw the same behavior there also.)

[sriemer]

@dschepler Patch sent to HID maintainers, linux-input, and stable mailing lists.
Check the archives for it: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/ Will appear there soon.
Subject: [PATCH] HID: Add another Primax PIXART OEM mouse quirk
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg62163.html
Patch applied upstream.

[jonathan-teh]

HP X1200 USB Optical Mouse (lsusb confirms manufacturer as PixArt) disconnects every 60 seconds with kernel 5.1.16-200 on Fedora 29. The kernel boot option usbhid.quirks=0x03f0:0x0641:0x00000400 fixes it.