[ale] weird mouse problem

[Jim Philips]

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.

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>wrote:

> I solved the problem in an unfair way. I upgraded Ubuntu to Maverick
> 10.10. No more problems.
>
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 21:45 -0400, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> > I had the same thing happen a couple days ago while running Evolution
> > on Fedora 12 (see my earlier posting).  Evo is buggy enough and I
> > tossed it off as an issue with 2.28.3 but still wonder if there was a
> > separate issue with the mouse that killed Evo.  I have not been able
> > to reproduce the issue and my system did respond to keyboard input
> > just as you report.  My mouse was working fine in M$ as well but my M$
> > drive appears to have taken a dump (no longer booting as of this
> > PM)...gee...that's too bad...so I guess I won't be doing that check!
> > (hehehe)
> >
> > Rich in Lilburn
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
> > Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> > Subject: [ale] weird mouse problem
> > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:20:58 -0400
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. Everything had been working okay. But today,
> > I got this problem with the mouse where no mouse clicks have any
> > effect. The cursor moves just fine. But no clicks seem to register.
> > The logs indicate some issue with USB and it is plugged into a USB
> > port. But I can't highlight and copy the text, because that would
> > imply mouse clicks. I can type commands at the command line. Any idea
> > where I should start looking?
> >
> > By the way, the mouse works fine in Windows.
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