Installed laptop-mode-tool 16.04, now USB mouse not working after rebooting until it is re plughed in

Question

I did a fresh install of 16.04 on my vizio ct14-a0 ultrabook.

I installed laptop-mode-tools

Then I edited the AUTOSUSPEND_TIMEOUT in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/runtime-pm.conf file from 2 to 0:

# Auto-Suspend timeout in seconds
# Number of seconds after which the USB devices should suspend
AUTOSUSPEND_TIMEOUT=2

This worked like a charm for me on 15.10, now the mouse isn't detected after a fresh boot until it is unplugged and plugged back in.

Any Ideas?

Answer 1

I've not figured out yet how to fix this issue permanently, but there is workaround that worked to me.

First off, you should discover which is your device:

# lsusb
...
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 056d:c087 Logitech, Inc. M105 Optical Mouse

Pay attention to the bus number and id. Then, go to /sys/bus/usb/devices and you will see that folder contains a lot of symlinks. Using Bus 003 as reference, you should dig into 3-* folders.

# ll
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 3-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-0:1.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 3-1 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 3-1:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 4-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb4/4-0:1.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 5-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-0:1.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 6-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb6/6-0:1.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 7-0:1.0 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb7/7-0:1.0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 usb1 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 usb2 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 nov 17 20:33 usb3 -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/
...

You'll notice every single folder has two files idVendor and idProduct. These files contain those id you got previously, through lsusb command. That was the tricky part.

Once you have identified the device (rename usb3/3-1 folders accordingly), run:

echo 'on' | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb3/3-1/power/control

The only inconvenient is that this solution is not permanent, and you should run it again every time you reboot your laptop (use reverse-i-search Ctrl+R then, will make all easier)

Answer 2

I had the same issue and you have to do a couple of steps:

1. In terminal check with lsusb, the ID vendor and ID product of your mouse. In my case I have a wheel optical mouse from Microsoft. So id is 045e:0040

   $ lsusb
   Bus 002 Device 004: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
   

2. Next edit your /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/runtime-pm.conf using sudo and check if the line is set to

   AUTOSUSPEND_USE_WHITELIST=0
   

3. Next, add the result of lsusb ID of your mouse as follows:

   AUTOSUSPEND_RUNTIME_DEVID_BLACKLIST="045e:0040"
   

4. Reboot and everything should be ok with the mouse.

Answer 3

I solved the problem by modifying:

sudo -H gedit /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/runtime-pm.conf

At the last line

AUTOSUSPEND_TIMEOUT=2

replace 2 with 99999999

AUTOSUSPEND_TIMEOUT=99999

save and reboot.