Linux problem. Mouse pointer jumping to top left corner

[techswede]

Right. So i have a problem that i can't find the solution to myself.. I googled it and got a bunch of threads without solutions.

It all began when i booted up ubuntu on my main rig.

At that point i noticed that the mouse pointer had gone completely nuts. And kept jumping to the top left corner of the screen.

I don't understand why. I've been running the same hardware and there have been no noticable changes to ubuntu before this happened.

When i couldn't find any solution to the problem i reacted as you might expect....

 

So i gave in and thought "Hey. Fedora has been working fine on my laptop. Let's try that instead!"

I formatted the harddrive containing ubuntu and i went through the installation process without any issues.

But then i noticed...

.....It had exactly the same problem...

 

Anyone have any suggestions as to what i could do to fix this?

[antoainb]

What mouse do you have?

[techswede]

What mouse do you have?

I tried it with both my old faithfull Razer abyssus and my spare Andersson mouse

[antoainb]

I tried it with both my old faithfull Razer abyssus and my spare Andersson mouse

 

Have you tried this?

 

http://www.ehow.com/how_6800109_reinstall-ubuntu-using-command-line.html

[techswede]

Have you tried this?

 

http://www.ehow.com/how_6800109_reinstall-ubuntu-using-command-line.html

I'll try that when i can take my gpus out again. Since i've popped them back in i might as well try playing some games.

I just hope it works in fedora 

[antoainb]

I'll try that when i can take my gpus out again. Since i've popped them back in i might as well try playing some games.

I just hope it works in fedora 

 

It should, it also uses X.Org.

[Iksf]

Sorry for the necro

 

Had this problem myself

Solved it with this 

 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_polling_rate

 

Abyssus has a poll rate of 1000hz so I just dumped 

 

options usbhid mousepoll=1
 

into /etc/modprobe.conf and then reloaded the module with

 

modprobe -r usbhid && modprobe usbhid

 

[techswede]

 

Sorry for the necro

 

Had this problem myself

Solved it with this 

 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_polling_rate

 

Abyssus has a poll rate of 1000hz so I just dumped 

 

options usbhid mousepoll=1

 

into /etc/modprobe.conf and then reloaded the module with

 

modprobe -r usbhid && modprobe usbhid

 

 

I'll mark this thread as solved with this. 

I waited for a bit and installed fedora again. And that fixed it for me. I've long since moved on to more severe problems  

[Iksf]

I just like to leave the information around for future people. I couldn't find anything about it just worked it out from knowing about the usbhid options and a hunch. Next person to have the bug may not be so fortunate. I had no expectation to really help you particularly after a whole year.