Pretty new to Ubuntu and Linux for home use as a whole, anything I've done in the past has been simple server work so I've never had to deal with troubleshooting my own hardware before, anyway.
I currently have a SteelSeries "World of Warcraft Cataclysm MMO Gaming Mouse", which I bought several years ago. When using this with Windows and the SteelSeries downloaded mouse package I was able to use the mouse with no problems whatsoever, however on booting into ubuntu for the first time today, I am completely unable to use the mouse for anything, the courser does not respond to any interaction whatsoever.
I've seen posts on the ubuntu forums about the same mouse, but these people appear to be struggling to use the additional buttons on the mouse rather than use the mouse for typical activity. I'm not too bothered about using the additional buttons having given up MMO gaming years ago, but these people seem to be able to use the mouse for normal mouse-y things like pointing and clicking whilst I'm struggling to get that far. That's all I want to achieve.
I had no issues with using the mouse when trying out a debian live CD earlier today, though I subsequently switched straight to a fresh install of ubuntu on booting for the first time into my debian install and finding the mouse wasn't working, thinking that this was probably a nonfree drivers issue that ubuntu would be far more able to cope with.
Is there anything I can do or anywhere I can look to perhaps figure out what I need to do to get this thing working? Thanks.
Using xinput I get:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SteelSeries World of Warcraft: Cataclysm MMO Gaming Mouse id=8 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SteelSeries World of Warcraft: Cataclysm MMO Gaming Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SteelSeries World of Warcraft: Cataclysm MMO Gaming Mouse id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ CHESEN USB Keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ CHESEN USB Keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
uname -a
, thendmesg | tail -n 20
right after plugged mouse in and oflsusb -v
when mouse is plugged?