Watching dmesg and Xorg.0.log, I see that the mouse is actually disconnecting and reconnecting from the bus frequently. This causes periods of, you guessed it, non-working/dead zombie mouse. When another mouse is plugged in, it continues to work fine while the Saitek is disconnected.

I've only so far tried the mouse on two ubuntu systems (10.04, 10.10), behavior is the same.

System I'm dealing with now (Ub 10.04.1):
2.6.32
Xorg server 1.7.6

The mouse is using evdev driver and is not manually configured in xorg.conf. I thought of trying a different driver via xorg.conf, but had trouble getting the device even connected then.

Attaching snippets of the logs. Cannot post lsusb output without a reboot, can do on request.

Any ideas what to look into? As we speak I'm looking for a non-linux OS to try the mouse on to eliminate hardware fault.

Attached Files

	dmesg.txt (11.7 KB, 9 views)
	Xorg.0.log (24.0 KB, 15 views)

Disregard, the same problem is exhibited on Windows, although it appears dead for a much smaller time period. I'm going to return to manufacturer.