Mouse functionality lost

[01generator]

Hello,

First of i have a reazer chroma x blackwidow keyboard and a razer abyssus mouse.

I had installed ubuntu 16.04LTS and after razer_chroma_drivers installation mouse functionality got lost.
I have made a clean install of ubuntu 16.04LTS and installed the razer_chroma_drivers again, result was the same.
After that I downloaded kubuntu 14.04LTS and installed it, result was the same.

A wild guess is that 2 razer products and specifically abyssus mouse is causing trouble.

Any fixes on these? I really want to use my keyboard features, I do not care about the mouse, if somehow I can isolate it to be functioning just for the keyboard would be great.

Keep up the good work!

*when i say mouse functionality got lost I mean, depending the display manager mouse is visible in the middle of the screen and you are not able to move it! In some display managers you cant even see the mouse.

[terricain]

Plug in an additional mouse so you can still click. Install the drivers (so that your abyssus doesn't work) then run ls -R /sys/bus/hid/drivers

In theory both should work fine together as there are technically separate drivers. Most likely the wrong mouse USB interface is getting rebound to the razermouse driver.

[01generator]

Ok I have installed the drivers again.

Usually problem starts after a reboot.

This is the outcome of ls -R /sys/bus/hid/drivers before reboot

/sys/bus/hid/drivers:
hid-generic

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic:
0003:045E:0040.0005  0003:1532:0216.0002  0003:1532:0216.0004  module  uevent
0003:1532:0042.0001  0003:1532:0216.0003  bind                 new_id  unbind 

Strangely after rebooting with both mice plugged, both are working.

Outcome of the ls -R /sys/bus/hid/drivers after reboot

hid-generic  razermouse

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic:
0003:045E:0040.0001  0003:1532:0216.0004  bind    new_id  unbind
0003:1532:0216.0003  0003:1532:0216.0005  module  uevent

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/razermouse:
0003:1532:0042.0002  bind  module  new_id  uevent  unbind

[01generator]

Correction!

After reboot razer mouse only works, the other mouse lost functionality

[terricain]

The other mouse doesn't work at all? Thats most odd, did the keyboard work?

[01generator]

Ok correction cause I am a fool, both mice working properly I removed it to see if the abyssus was working solo and I forgot it.

Now I have a clean install of kubuntu 16.04 and razer chroma drivers install with both mice pluged in and working
With output of ls -R /sys/bus/hid/drivers

/sys/bus/hid/drivers:
hid-generic  razermouse

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic:
0003:045E:0040.0001  0003:1532:0216.0004  bind    new_id  unbind
0003:1532:0216.0003  0003:1532:0216.0005  module  uevent

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/razermouse:
0003:1532:0042.0002  bind  module  new_id  uevent  unbind

Now I am gone install polychromic and come back to you.

[terricain]

Well it seems the razerkbd driver isnt being loaded 😟. + polychromic will not work with abyssus as the daemon doesnt support it I dont think

[01generator]

So as you said polychromic is not working at all, I do not know if razerkbd is working hmmm

But we managed to overpass the no working mouse.

If you install the driver with 2 mice connected, reboot, remove the 2nd mouse and reboot again all is working as expected.

Any code for terminal to test if keyboard is accepting commands?

[terricain]

Well this tells us its not mounted as there should be a razerkbd entry.

/sys/bus/hid/drivers:
hid-generic razermouse

try sudo modprobe razerkbd and if that works run ls -R /sys/bus/hid/drivers
Also format the output of the terminal using (remove the spaces between the backticks though)

` ` `
Test
` ` `

[01generator]

So the output after the 2 commands

hid-generic  razerkbd  razermouse

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic:
0003:1532:0216.0002  0003:1532:0216.0004  module  uevent
0003:1532:0216.0003  bind                 new_id  unbind

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/razerkbd:
bind  module  new_id  uevent  unbind

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/razermouse:
0003:1532:0042.0001  bind  module  new_id  uevent  unbind

Note that second mouse is not plugged in.

[terricain]

Thats fine. Ok the keyboard is not binded to the keyboard driver but at least the keyboard driver is loaded. Try sudo udevadm control --reload-rules then rerun the ls -R

[01generator]

Hmmm I do not think that the outcome is different

/sys/bus/hid/drivers:
hid-generic  razerkbd  razermouse

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic:
0003:1532:0216.0002  0003:1532:0216.0004  module  uevent
0003:1532:0216.0003  bind                 new_id  unbind

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/razerkbd:
bind  module  new_id  uevent  unbind

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/razermouse:
0003:1532:0042.0001  bind  module  new_id  uevent  unbind

[terricain]

It's not :-(, am on the train. I'll give you a command later to try and bind the driver manually

[01generator]

Hello,
Any news updates on the subject?

[terricain]

Sorry. Try this (either run both those commands in a script or use a 2nd keyboard as after the first 1 the keyboard will be unresponsive until running the 2nd)

echo -n '0003:1532:0216.0004' > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic/unbind
echo -n '0003:1532:0216.0004' > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/razerkbd/bind

Then run ls -R /sys/bus/hid/drivers again. In theory the keyboard should be bound to the razer keyboard driver then

[01generator]

ls -R /sys/bus/hid/drivers before the commands you listed

/sys/bus/hid/drivers:
hid-generic  razermouse

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic:
0003:1532:0216.0001  bind    uevent
0003:1532:0216.0002  module  unbind
0003:1532:0216.0003  new_id

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/razermouse:
0003:1532:0042.0004  module  uevent
bind                 new_id  unbind

And result in the command you listed

sudo echo -n '0003:1532:0216.0004' > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic/unbind
bash: /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic/unbind: Permission denied

I also tried sudo echo -n '0003:1532:0216.0003' > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic/unbind
Result was the same.

[claell]

I think you need to be in root shell to do this, but I may be wrong.

[01generator]

You are correct claell

I did echo -n '0003:1532:0216.0003' > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic/unbind
No outoput - all ok i guess

Then echo -n '0003:1532:0216.0003' > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/razerkbd/bind
Output bash: /sys/bus/hid/drivers/razerkbd/bind: No such file or directory
Hmmmm O.o

ls -R /sys/bus/hid/drivers

/sys/bus/hid/drivers:
hid-generic  razermouse

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic:
0003:1532:0216.0001  bind    new_id  unbind
0003:1532:0216.0002  module  uevent

/sys/bus/hid/drivers/razermouse:
0003:1532:0042.0004  module  uevent
bind                 new_id  unbind

[terricain]

razerkbd driver seems to have unloaded itself. try modprobe razerkbd then echo -n '0003:1532:0216.0003' > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/razerkbd/bind

as root

[d-rez]

I had a similar issue where the mouse stopped working right after installing the driver

Aug 09 22:21:04 razer_bcd[9527]: Binding device (0003:1532:0045.0007) to razermouse
Aug 09 22:21:04  razer_bcd[9527]: /etc/init.d/razer_bcd: 22: /etc/init.d/razer_bcd: cannot create /sys/bus/hid/drivers/razer
Aug 09 22:21:04  systemd[1]: razer_bcd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=2
Aug 09 22:21:04  systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: start/stops razer_bcd.

Managed to fix this by manually enabling the kernel module
$ modprobe razermouse
and restarting the service
$ systemctl status razer_bcd.service