When I press one of the righthand side buttons (not the usual back/forward buttons) the mouse freezes, and the -22 error(see below) comes up in dmesg. When I remove the mouse and put it in again it works, but the buttons still freezes the mouse.

I couldn't find any useful information on either error -22 or concerning the Sensei mouse.

This is from dmesg after boot:

[    2.473271] input: La-VIEW Technology SteelSeries   as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.6/2-1.6:1.0/input/input3

[    2.473445] generic-usb 0003:1038:1361.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [La-VIEW Technology SteelSeries  ] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.6/input0

[    2.474360] generic-usb: probe of 0003:1038:1361.0002 failed with error -22

[    2.474427] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid

[    2.474493] usbhid: USB HID core driver

xinput list-props 8 yields:

Device 'La-VIEW Technology SteelSeries  ':

Device Enabled (142):   1

Coordinate Transformation Matrix (144): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000

Device Accel Profile (271): 0

Device Accel Constant Deceleration (272):   3.000000

Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (273):   1.000000

Device Accel Velocity Scaling (274):    10.000000

Device Product ID (260):    4152, 4961

Device Node (261):  "/dev/input/event3"

Evdev Axis Inversion (275): 0, 0

Evdev Axes Swap (277):  0

Axis Labels (278):  "Rel X" (152), "Rel Y" (153), "Rel Horiz Wheel" (269), "Rel Vert Wheel" (270)

Button Labels (279):    "Button Left" (145), "Button Middle" (146), "Button Right" (147), "Button Wheel Up" (148), "Button Wheel Down" (149), "Button Horiz Wheel Left" (150), "Button Horiz Wheel Right" (151), "Button Side" (264), "Button Extra" (265), "Button Forward" (266), "Button Back" (267), "Button Task" (268), "Button Unknown" (263), "Button Unknown" (263), "Button Unknown" (263), "Button Unknown" (263)

Evdev Middle Button Emulation (280):    0

Evdev Middle Button Timeout (281):  50

Evdev Third Button Emulation (282): 0

Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (283): 1000

Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (284):  3

Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (285):   20

Evdev Wheel Emulation (286):    0

Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (287):   0, 0, 4, 5

Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (288):    10

Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (289):    200

Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (290): 4

Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (291):  0

Update 1:

I have now tried to sniff the usb packets to see what's going on when i press the buttons that freeze the mouse. I've put them below:

No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Length Info

 199479 390.237182  6.1                   host                  USB      64     URB_INTERRUPT in



Frame 199479: 64 bytes on wire (512 bits), 64 bytes captured (512 bits)

USB URB

    URB id: 0xffff8801ca55ba80

    URB type: URB_COMPLETE ('C')

    URB transfer type: URB_INTERRUPT (0x01)

    Endpoint: 0x81, Direction: IN

        1... .... = Direction: IN (1)

        .000 0001 = Endpoint value: 1

    Device: 6

    URB bus id: 2

    Device setup request: not relevant ('-')

    Data: present (0)

    URB sec: 1343162038

    URB usec: 333931

    URB status: Protocol error (-EPROTO) (-71)

    URB length [bytes]: 0

    Data length [bytes]: 0

    [Request in: 194548]

    [Time from request: 23.890818000 seconds]



No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Length Info

 199480 390.251625  host                  6.1                   USB      64     URB_INTERRUPT in



Frame 199480: 64 bytes on wire (512 bits), 64 bytes captured (512 bits)

USB URB

    URB id: 0xffff8801ca55ba80

    URB type: URB_SUBMIT ('S')

    URB transfer type: URB_INTERRUPT (0x01)

    Endpoint: 0x81, Direction: IN

        1... .... = Direction: IN (1)

        .000 0001 = Endpoint value: 1

    Device: 6

    URB bus id: 2

    Device setup request: not relevant ('-')

    Data: not present ('<')

    URB sec: 1343162038

    URB usec: 348374

    URB status: Operation now in progress (-EINPROGRESS) (-115)

    URB length [bytes]: 8

    Data length [bytes]: 0

    [Response in: 199481]



No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Length Info

 199481 390.255254  6.1                   host                  USB      64     URB_INTERRUPT in



Frame 199481: 64 bytes on wire (512 bits), 64 bytes captured (512 bits)

USB URB

    URB id: 0xffff8801ca55ba80

    URB type: URB_COMPLETE ('C')

    URB transfer type: URB_INTERRUPT (0x01)

    Endpoint: 0x81, Direction: IN

        1... .... = Direction: IN (1)

        .000 0001 = Endpoint value: 1

    Device: 6

    URB bus id: 2

    Device setup request: not relevant ('-')

    Data: present (0)

    URB sec: 1343162038

    URB usec: 352003

    URB status: Protocol error (-EPROTO) (-71)

    URB length [bytes]: 0

    Data length [bytes]: 0

    [Request in: 199480]

    [Time from request: 0.003629000 seconds]



No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Length Info

 199488 390.279626  host                  6.1                   USB      64     URB_INTERRUPT in



Frame 199488: 64 bytes on wire (512 bits), 64 bytes captured (512 bits)

USB URB

    URB id: 0xffff8801ca55ba80

    URB type: URB_SUBMIT ('S')

    URB transfer type: URB_INTERRUPT (0x01)

    Endpoint: 0x81, Direction: IN

        1... .... = Direction: IN (1)

        .000 0001 = Endpoint value: 1

    Device: 6

    URB bus id: 2

    Device setup request: not relevant ('-')

    Data: not present ('<')

    URB sec: 1343162038

    URB usec: 376375

    URB status: Operation now in progress (-EINPROGRESS) (-115)

    URB length [bytes]: 8

    Data length [bytes]: 0

    [Response in: 199489]



No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Length Info

 199489 390.283255  6.1                   host                  USB      64     URB_INTERRUPT in



Frame 199489: 64 bytes on wire (512 bits), 64 bytes captured (512 bits)

USB URB

    URB id: 0xffff8801ca55ba80

    URB type: URB_COMPLETE ('C')

    URB transfer type: URB_INTERRUPT (0x01)

    Endpoint: 0x81, Direction: IN

        1... .... = Direction: IN (1)

        .000 0001 = Endpoint value: 1

    Device: 6

    URB bus id: 2

    Device setup request: not relevant ('-')

    Data: present (0)

    URB sec: 1343162038

    URB usec: 380004

    URB status: Protocol error (-EPROTO) (-71)

    URB length [bytes]: 0

    Data length [bytes]: 0

    [Request in: 199488]

    [Time from request: 0.003629000 seconds]



No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Length Info

 199504 390.331599  host                  6.1                   USB      64     URB_INTERRUPT in



Frame 199504: 64 bytes on wire (512 bits), 64 bytes captured (512 bits)

USB URB

    URB id: 0xffff8801ca55ba80

    URB type: URB_SUBMIT ('S')

    URB transfer type: URB_INTERRUPT (0x01)

    Endpoint: 0x81, Direction: IN

        1... .... = Direction: IN (1)

        .000 0001 = Endpoint value: 1

    Device: 6

    URB bus id: 2

    Device setup request: not relevant ('-')

    Data: not present ('<')

    URB sec: 1343162038

    URB usec: 428348

    URB status: Operation now in progress (-EINPROGRESS) (-115)

    URB length [bytes]: 8

    Data length [bytes]: 0

    [Response in: 199505]



No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol Length Info

 199505 390.335256  6.1                   host                  USB      64     URB_INTERRUPT in



Frame 199505: 64 bytes on wire (512 bits), 64 bytes captured (512 bits)

USB URB

    URB id: 0xffff8801ca55ba80

    URB type: URB_COMPLETE ('C')

    URB transfer type: URB_INTERRUPT (0x01)

    Endpoint: 0x81, Direction: IN

        1... .... = Direction: IN (1)

        .000 0001 = Endpoint value: 1

    Device: 6

    URB bus id: 2

    Device setup request: not relevant ('-')

    Data: present (0)

    URB sec: 1343162038

    URB usec: 432005

    URB status: Protocol error (-EPROTO) (-71)

    URB length [bytes]: 0

    Data length [bytes]: 0

    [Request in: 199504]

    [Time from request: 0.003657000 seconds]

Update 2:

I've just tried rebooting from windows (not shutting down and booting again mind you) - and now the mouse registers fine with the extra buttons (they're btn 10 and 11).

I've had a similar thing happen to my touchpad on my laptop (where it behaved differently after rebooting from windows - though not for the better in that situation). I think the rationale were that there must've been some kind of ram/rom in the hardware which stored some driver specific stuff and which didn't get cleared properly on a reboot.

I have no idea if this would help anyone, but now it's documented.