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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by neltnerb on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:26AM (#28277281)
Huh, my wireless mouse does all kinds of weird stuff. The oddest is that sometimes Linux decides that two mice are attached despite there being only one USB dongle plugged in, and the only solution is to turn off the mouse, unplug the wireless receiver dongle, plug it back in, and hope it worked. Otherwise it's either reboot or rmmod/modprobe.

Of course, the mouse is a Razer...

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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by fanick on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:41AM (#28277545)
Can confirm. Have been using wireless Logitech MX master 3. There is like 1 in 10 chance that my Linux machine hangs when putting it into sleep and I touch the mouse. Also it is almost guaranteed the machine freezes when i turn the mouse off with the switch on its belly while putting the computer to sleep. It taught me to always save my work at least:)
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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by jamessb on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:06PM (#28281946)
Interesting - I also have a wireless logitech mouse connected to a ubuntu machine that intermittently crashes when going to sleep. It hadn't occurred to me that the crashes might be linked to the mouse.
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