Re: Horrible mouse problems under Sid with 2.6.17, latest xorg


(Sorry for the duplicate, Ken. I'm using Yahoo! Mail while my primary system
is down. I didn't mean to send a copy directly to you.)

--- Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 03:31:18PM -0400, David Bruce wrote:
For some time I have had problems with the mouse becoming erratic
(losing synch?) and generating a flurry of click events, generally
opening a bunch of Konq windows and inserting random cuts/pastes and
other click events into whatever I happen to be working on (most
commonly coding with KDevelop). I cannot reliably reproduce the
behavior - usually starts a few minutes into session and seems to
perhaps occur mainly when I have the mouse over the bottom of the
screen at the Kicker bar. Usually, but not always, the mouse becomes
unresponsive after the unwanted activity subsides. Restarting X with
Ctrl-Alt-Backspc does not restore normal mouse behavior.

My system - home built Athlon 2400 PC, Mitsumi scroll mouse.
- Linux 2.6.17 source from debian, built by me with make-kpkg
- no power management enabled in kernel config.
- kernel config mouse support for PS/2
- ImPS/2 selected in xorg.conf; scroll enabled

My wife is begging me to "get rid of that @#$% Debian thing" and go
back to Windows.

Any ideas?

I've had the same on and off, similar system, USB mouse. My xorg.conf
file has this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

I changed xorg's idea of a mouse to the ImPS/2 protocol and double
checked gpm, which for me runs with
/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t autops2 -r 40
Don't know if this will help you or not...

Did you check for bug reports?


I'm running Sarge, but the last time I had the exact same problem, replacing
my mouse with a new $5 optical mouse solved the problem for me (if config
changes dont work, of course).

Marc Shapiro


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