Mouse Constantly Drifts Left

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I just ran a system update, rebooted, and now the mouse is constantly moving slowly to left.
I did some searching but can’t find any reference to similar issues.

Anyone have any ideas what’s going on?

System:
  Host: richard-desktop Kernel: 6.1.64-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.9 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B550I AORUS PRO AX v: N/A
    serial: N/A
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550I AORUS PRO AX v: x.x serial: N/A BIOS: American
    Megatrends LLC. v: FA date: 11/30/2022
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2600 min/max: 2200/4850 cores: 1: 2200 2: 2200 3: 2200
    4: 2200 5: 2200 6: 3800 7: 2200 8: 2200 9: 2200 10: 3800 11: 2200 12: 3800
    13: 3800 14: 2200 15: 2200 16: 2200
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060] driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06
  Device-2: KYE Systems (Mouse Systems) PC-LM1E Camera
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: server: X.Org v: 21.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.2 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia resolution: 5120x1440~120Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 545.29.06
    renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.269 drivers: nvidia surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-3: Razer USA BlackShark V2 Pro
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
  Device-4: KYE Systems (Mouse Systems) PC-LM1E Camera
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
  Device-5: Plantronics Plantronics Blackwire 3225 Series
    driver: plantronics,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
  Device-6: Sony DualSense wireless controller (PS5) driver: usbfs type: USB
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.64-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 74:56:3c:6d:14:ac
  Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7921K Wi-Fi 6E 80MHz driver: mt7921e
  IF: wlp5s0 state: down mac: 82:49:b3:63:2b:f3
  Device-3: Sony DualSense wireless controller (PS5) driver: usbfs type: USB
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: MediaTek Wireless_Device driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci1 state: up address: BC:F4:D4:0D:45:2C bt-v: 5.2
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: ID: hci0 state: up address: 5C:F3:70:A6:7A:16 bt-v: 4.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.17 TiB used: 2.16 TiB (68.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0C
    size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDHII480G size: 447.13 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT2000MX500SSD1 size: 1.82 TiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 287.31 GiB used: 71.86 GiB (25.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /home size: 1.7 TiB used: 1.61 TiB (94.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb3
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 74.4 C mobo: 44.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 1178
Info:
  Processes: 380 Uptime: 25m Memory: total: 64 GiB available: 62.72 GiB
  used: 27.64 GiB (44.1%) Shell: Sudo inxi: 3.3.31
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Silly question, have you tried another mouse?
Could have just been a coincidence it broke right after an update.

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I haven’t. It was literally “working, reboot, 15 seconds later, not working”. That would be a hell of a coincidence.

I unplugged the mouse, and the cursor is still moving so there’s not any aberrant signals from the hardware.

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If you have btrfs and snapshots I recommend restoring to before the update and retry. Or you could try to recompile your kernels with sudo mkinitcpio -P and reboot to see if something strange just happened in the creation of the kernels.

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Not on btrfs.

Is that all that’s involved in recompiling the kernel? Not done it before and figured it would be harder than that! :smiley:

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ASSUMING your download of all updated things went through correctly, yes.

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If I’m not back in 10 minutes, it’s all your fault. :rofl:

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That’s not what that command does…

See: man mkinitcpio and mkinitcpio - ArchWiki


mkinitcpio - Create an initial ramdisk environment
==================================================

      -P, --allpresets
           Process all presets contained in /etc/mkinitcpio.d. See the -p
           option for more detail about presets.
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You mean it does more?

Please explain, I hate dislike giving out wrong information. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the info @Yochanan

Either way @bedna, it didn’t help. However, I have fixed it. On reboot I noticed that the mouse cursor was stationary on the login screen, and immediately after login. This prompted me to look at the programs that were starting automatically.

Somehow SC-Controller had got itself back into my auto-start list and it was that causing the mouse drift. Removed it from the auto-start, rebooted, and voila. Problem solved.

Thanks for the sounding board.

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You have spooky gremlins in your system… Happens sometimes. xD

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How? I bet it was because…

:wink:

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No, it does less. :wink:

I just mentioned the man page and wiki article. :wink:

Either way, that’s a subject for another topic as it’s not related to this one…

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Feel free to discuss here. I’m interested too.

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Let’s not and say we didn’t.

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Shot fired, point taken.
:innocent: :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :kissing_closed_eyes:

But @Yochanan the solution was actually:

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