I'd spent the weekend dealing with this as last week someone at work gave me one of these plantronics devices to use, and I was stoked it would act as a headset for my pc as well. Then I started getting the screen freeze issue, and never figured out it was linked to the stupid headset. After upgrading from 12.04 to 13.10 (hitting a ton of ubuntu bugs along with the way with the intel 4000 video chipset, forcing me to hit 13.10 until I got a stable system again), and trying every window manager out there, still had this issue... Seemingly after doing anything that triggered the sound device, finally figured out it was related when disconnecting the plantronics headset would allow me to click on my display windows again. Argh!
If nothing else, can you (Canonical) simply blacklist the device by default, or at least add the xorg entry if you can't find a better way of dealing with it? This is likely to make any user lose their hair as it about did for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993655 Title: Unity looses mouse click handler when using enabling USB headset Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have a Plantronics D100 headset. When I press the button on the headset to enable it, Unity looses its click handler, in that it can not click and drag windows. The cursor is visible and moves just fine. I can switch applications using Alt+Tab, and I can launch new applications using the keyboard. But I cannot close the existing window, or change focus to another window by using the mouse. The Headset microphone and speaker work just fine! Tested this on a laptop and desktop machine. Both running Ubuntu 12.04. The headset I'm using is a Plantronics D100 unit. I have had this problem for the past month while on the 12.04 beta release. --- ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell] DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: unity 5.10.0-0ubuntu6 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14 Tags: precise Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/993655/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
