My SteelSeries XAI Laser Mouse is not working on Ubuntu. It works fine under Windows, but it also interfers with booting if plugged in at startup (I don't know if this is helping, but I would assume that the bios sees it as a usb drive due to its internal memory).
If I check xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TypeMatrix.com USB Keyboard id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=14 [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)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ASUS USB2.0 Webcam id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ TypeMatrix.com USB Keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Ruling Technologies Sdn. Bhd. SteelSeries Gaming Device id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
It seems to recognize it only as a keyboard, which is not so strange given that some featues should be programmable. The back/forward-buttons and seems not to be working though, so I'm unsure if it is a partial success at all.
The dmesg output gives no apparent errors:
[10825.417071] usb 2-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[10825.512861] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1038, idProduct=1360
[10825.512873] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[10825.512879] usb 2-1.2: Product: SteelSeries Gaming Device
[10825.512884] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Ruling Technologies Sdn. Bhd.
[10830.510046] input: Ruling Technologies Sdn. Bhd. SteelSeries Gaming Device as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/input/input25
[10830.510702] hid-generic 0003:1038:1360.0006: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Ruling Technologies Sdn. Bhd. SteelSeries Gaming Device] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0
[10835.507628] input: Ruling Technologies Sdn. Bhd. SteelSeries Gaming Device as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.1/input/input26
[10835.508126] hid-generic 0003:1038:1360.0007: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Ruling Technologies Sdn. Bhd. SteelSeries Gaming Device] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input1
[10840.503400] hid-generic 0003:1038:1360.0008: hiddev0,hidraw4: USB HID v1.00 Device [Ruling Technologies Sdn. Bhd. SteelSeries Gaming Device] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input2
The closest resemblance to an answer I've found is this derailed thread, but at least someone else seems to have had the same problem.
I have not clue how I could inform udev or whichever part of the system is responsible, that this mouse is actually a mouse. There's a git repo for configuring a SteelSeries mouse on Ubuntu, but that seems not to be directly related either.
So, how to get my mouse recognized as a mouse?
Edit
The output of lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1e54:2030 TypeMatrix 2030 USB Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1038:1360 Ideazon, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:0139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5139 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1bcf:2885 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. ASUS Webcam
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0cf3:3005 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3011 Bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
lspci
. If you have another mouse, you might be able to open a terminal using Ctrl-Alt-T as well if that helps.lsusb
seems unclear to me so I'll post it all