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This fix is designed to eliminate the strange behavior of the mouse when it behaves like a gamepad (the mouse has dead zones like a gamepad stick).
This happens because the event files of the mouse are split. To fix this problem, you need to merge them using evsieve. However, depending on the linux kernel type, the event file numbers may change after each system boot. This fix detects which event files your mouse uses and merges them together.
Install evsieve
Check if udevadm works correctly with
udevadm --version
First, determine which event files your mouse is using with sudo evtest.
Usually, the difference in event file numbers is equal 2. If this is not the your case, change line 4 in the mouseFix file
eventNumber=$(($eventNumber+2))
to
eventNumber=$(($eventNumber+<your-difference>))
Then find which file creates these event files. You can do this either by looking at the links in the file properties of /dev/input/by-id, or by using udevadm
udevadm info /dev/input/event<your-number>
you need lines like this
S: input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:3:1.1-event-mouse
S: input/by-id/usb-COMPANY_USB_Device-if01-event-mouse
Insert the full path /by-id/ into the mouseEventPath in the mouseFix bash script, adding /dev/
mouseEventPath="/dev/input/by-id/usb-COMPANY_USB_Device-if01-event-mouse"
Copy <your-event-mouse> from the line S: input/by-path/<your-event-mouse> and paste it into mouseFix.service in the After= parameter, adding .device at the end
After=pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:3:1.1-event-mouse.device
After that, move the mouseFix bash script to a convenient location and write the FULL path to it in mouseFix.service ExecStart=
ExecStart=/<path-to-mouseFix>/mouseFix
Move mouseFix.service to /etc/systemd/system using
sudo mv mouseFix.service /etc/systemd/system
Enable and start mouseFix.service
systemctl enable mouseFix
systemctl start mouseFix
Enjoy!