Disable hi-resolution scrolling on Linux

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If your mouse wheel behaves weirdly in games, you may need to disable high resolution scrolling in modprobe or xinput/libinput settings. This is a common problem on Logitech gaming mouses.

Method 1 : Using modprobe

1. Unload "hid_logitech_hidpp" kernel module

sudo modprobe -r hid_logitech_hidpp

2. To disable it permanently, blacklist the module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

echo "blacklist hid_logitech_hidpp" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

3. Reboot

Method 2 : Using xinput/libinput

X.Org

1. List all devices

xinput list

2. Set high resolution to 0 (replace 9 with your mouse device id from the first command)

xinput set-prop 9 "libinput High Resolution Wheel Scroll Enabled" 0

3. To disable it permanently, create a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-libinput-no-hires-scroll.conf

4. Put this

Section "InputClass"
  Identifier "Disable high-resolution scrolling"
  MatchDriver "libinput"
  Option "HighResolutionWheelScrolling" "off"
EndSection

5. Reboot

Wayland

1. List all devices

libinput list-devices

2. Create a file named "local-overrides.quirks" in /etc/libinput/

sudo nano /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks

3. Put this (Make sure to change MatchName with your device name shown with the first step)

[Logitech G502]
MatchName=Logitech G502
AttrEventCode=-REL_WHEEL_HI_RES;-REL_HWHEEL_HI_RES;

4. Reboot

Holy shit thank you so much for this! This has fixed my issues in my CAD software, where it was impossible to do certain things with the scroll wheel.

This doesn't seem to work in the latest libinput version 1.29 anymore. I have to downgrade libinput to get it to work again.
There seems to be an issue on this:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/1160

@dasmikko I updated the gist with a new method. Try it again with sudo modprobe -r hid_logitech_hidpp.

@dasmikko I updated the gist with a new method. Try it again with sudo modprobe -r hid_logitech_hidpp.

Didn't work for me sadly. :(