[ale] weird mouse problem

Richard Faulkner rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
Wed Sep 8 21:22:31 EDT 2010


Great find!  I have yet to reproduce the problem I had...Evo has even
behaved itself.

-----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: Re: [ale] weird mouse problem
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:30:10 -0400

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:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/567068/comments/7

I made the suggested changes to xorg.conf and everything seems to be
fine now. 

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Richard Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>
wrote:
        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).  
        
        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
        
        
        
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
        To: rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
        
        Subject: Re: [ale] weird mouse problem
        
        
        Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:32:27 -0400
        
        I found what may be the solution. Under
        System-->Preferences-->Input Method Switcher, the option
        selected (not by me) was:
        
        Do not use input method.
        
        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.
        
        On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Richard Faulkner
        <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote: 
        
                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.  
                
                The plot thickens...
                
                
                
                -----Original Message-----
                From: Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
                
                
                To: rfaulkner at 34thprs.org, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts -
                Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
                Subject: Re: [ale] weird mouse problem
                Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:17:35 -0400
                
                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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