<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">I finally solved this. There were notes added to an Ubuntu bug on configuring X to work with the Logitech USB Trackball (my mouse) here:<br><br><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/567068/comments/7">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/567068/comments/7</a><br>
<br>I made the suggested changes to xorg.conf and everything seems to be fine now. <br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Richard Faulkner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Interesting. 10.10 is a bit different (I believe) than F12 in this regard. Mine appears to be using defaults but "Enable input method feature" is not selected. I assume that IBus is the default input method in this regard (would have to read up on this to confirm unless a learned soul here already knows the answer to that question). <br>
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I still have not had a mouse failure since my first report but have had at least one hang of Evo. I have not yet gone looking for log files on this...been busy working on the honey-do list instead. Maybe later tonight....R<div class="im">
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I found what may be the solution. Under System-->Preferences-->Input Method Switcher, the option selected (not by me) was:<br>
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Do not use input method.<br>
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I changed this to the default and now I seem to have full mouse functionality in all areas of the screen. I'll post more if the problem resurfaces.<br>
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On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Richard Faulkner <<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org" target="_blank">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>> wrote:
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This may be a stupid question but...have you tried another mouse? My issues were manifest by no mouse input being accepted but the system was still running. Keyboard input was accepted and mouse functionality returned when I killed Evo. <br>
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<b>Subject</b>: Re: [ale] weird mouse problem<br>
<b>Date</b>: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:17:35 -0400<br>
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I spoke too soon. The problem is back in Ubuntu 10.10. But I'm finding the mouse clicks are selectively unresponsive. Jut now, open applications wouldn't respond to mouse clicks, but items in the Gnome panel would. Then I did a right-click in the panel and selected "About". Now the panel doesn't respond to left-clicks, but open applications do. I'm not finding anything in Xorg logs or messages that would help in understanding this.<br>
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Jim Philips <<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com" target="_blank">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I solved the problem in an unfair way. I upgraded Ubuntu to Maverick<br>
10.10. No more problems.<br>
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On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 21:45 -0400, Richard Faulkner wrote:<br>
> I had the same thing happen a couple days ago while running Evolution<br>
> on Fedora 12 (see my earlier posting). Evo is buggy enough and I<br>
> tossed it off as an issue with 2.28.3 but still wonder if there was a<br>
> separate issue with the mouse that killed Evo. I have not been able<br>
> to reproduce the issue and my system did respond to keyboard input<br>
> just as you report. My mouse was working fine in M$ as well but my M$<br>
> drive appears to have taken a dump (no longer booting as of this<br>
> PM)...gee...that's too bad...so I guess I won't be doing that check!<br>
> (hehehe)<br>
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> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
> Subject: [ale] weird mouse problem<br>
> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:20:58 -0400<br>
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> I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. Everything had been working okay. But today,<br>
> I got this problem with the mouse where no mouse clicks have any<br>
> effect. The cursor moves just fine. But no clicks seem to register.<br>
> The logs indicate some issue with USB and it is plugged into a USB<br>
> port. But I can't highlight and copy the text, because that would<br>
> imply mouse clicks. I can type commands at the command line. Any idea<br>
> where I should start looking?<br>
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> By the way, the mouse works fine in Windows.<br>
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