Keeping usb mouse buttons pressed results in repeated ButtonPress events [regression]

After further investigation I found that it is not Mighty Mouse specific but may happen with any USB mouse using the evdev driver (I'll change the description) and that even Mark Lord himself was hit:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/12/2/468128

alas no suggestion nor conclusion about it, except that it might be specific to linux kernel 2.6.24. What's worse: a reboot solved the issue for Mark Lord but for me it doesn't :(

Reassigned as it is apparently due to evdev

I suspect there are actually *two* mouse configured in X11. I'm attaching the output of "xinput list" which shows my hand-configured "MightyMouse" and also a mysterious "Macintosh mouse button emulation", uhm...

Adding

Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"

to the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf gets rid of "Macintosh mouse button emulation" but the multiple clicks stay :(

The events come from the kernel, so it's probably a bug there. Anyway, cannot reproduce on Intrepid, so closing as fixed.

This bug is still present in Hardy Heron (8.04). Since it has to do with a user's ability to use mouse input with evdev, and Hardy is LTS, I nominate it to be repaired in Hardy as well.

Hi mikbini,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

I've recently experienced this problem in Debian after upgrading to xorg 1.5.x and switching the mouse to the evdev driver. I've been able to correct the issue by removing the package, "xserver-xorg-input-mouse"

Reopening, as it still happens in an up-to-date Intrepid. My mouse (Logitech MX610, USB one, no adapter) works fine, as I had no problems in Windows.

It's very difficult to move any scroll bars, drag the windows on the screen or to select any text. It's very annoying and productivity-killing :( I would provide any help to debug this.

Another symptom:
Sometimes clicking with left/middle button at some point on the screen results in the click being fired at completely different point. Following clicks appears at exactly same point. Only pressing right button resets this state and allows to make the right click.

As of right now, I still am having this problem in Intrepid Ibex. I believe the problem began some time in December 2008 upon installing some updates. My laptop which has Hardy Heron seems to be ok and is not affected by this bug. Is there anyone who can offer a workaround for this problem? It's driving me nuts.

Seems like additional events was a result of a mouse, as described here: http://forums.logitech.com/logitech/board/message?board.id=hardware_mice&thread.id=3406
Logitech has replaced my faulty MX610 for a new MX620 and everything seems to be fine so far :)

Same here, attaching xev log file. During test I pressed right button hold it for few seconds and released. I did this ONCE but as you can see in log is several Press/Release events.

I can confirm that this is HARDWARE ISSUE caused by FAULTY mouse button. Support request from Logitech was resolved by fixing faulty mouse and now everything is fine.

Thanks, closing the bug.

Sorry, it wasn't the original submitter who said this was a hw issue..

Closing anyway. mkbini, if you can reproduce the issue on 9.10 or lucid, feel free to reopen. Updates to the evdev driver in 8.04 are not going to happen.