I recently installed a new SSD and installed linux on it. I was running Windows 10 originally, now I'm dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18. The installation of the OS worked fine. But after that day I began noticing that my mouse is constantly "scrolling down" as if I'm constantly scrolling the wheel downwards. I can't use my mouse properly. Everywhere my mouse rests at, its like I'm constantly scrolling downwards at that location.
It doesn't occur all the time. For example, I'm fine on websites -> the page doesn't keep scrolling down. But I open many browser tabs, and if i just move my mouse of one of the tabs, the the right-most tab gets selected. If I open LibreOffice, the sheet keeps scrolling infinitely to the right.
Does anyone know what could have caused this?
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Unbelievable, but the problem was that my wireless keyboard and my wireless mouse's receivers were both on adjacent usb ports. when i moved my mouse's reciever to a further away port, I found that my mouse was not being weird any more, but my keyboard was acting funny. Turns out my keyboard's battery was running low and it was interfering with my mouse
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