Erratic cursor movement with Apple Magic Mouse

Erratic cursor movement with Apple Magic Mouse

[Christoph Langner]

Hello!

I'm trying to use a Apple Magic Mouse on a ordinary PC with Ubuntu
Linux 10.04. Out of the box the mouse "worked" in Lucid. Paring,
moving the cursor over the screen and right/left clicks worked. After
I installed multitouch-kernel-source_1.2. and a reboot I was able to
scroll and do middle clicks. So more or less it worked very good.

Today (i can't remember that i changed a thing) the cursor is stuck at
the top left corner of the screen,  even when I move the mouse. When i
touch the surface of the mouse I can move the cursor. It looks like
the surface of the mouse controls the position of the cursor on my
screen. I installed the kernel module inside Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04
and the PPA of Chase Douglas [1]. Other people [2] report similar
issues. Deleting the connection between my
system and the mouse and re-pair it doesn't help.

I reported the issue to bugzilla.kernel.org [3], is there something I
can do to make the mouse work again?

Thanks
Christoph


[1] https://launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/+archive/multitouch
[2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9244651&postcount=121
[3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15928