Re: [opensuse] New installation, erratic mouse cursor

On Wednesday 30 September 2009 01:14:15 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
At 18:02:31 on Wednesday Wednesday 30 September 2009, "David C. Rankin"

<drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 06:58:45 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
I've installed v11.1 on a new notebook machine, and am finding it
difficult to control the mouse. The motion of its cursor is erratic
when I am trying to move it, sometimes jumping clear across the
screen; it's enough to try ones patience. The external mouse and the
machines touch panel behave identically, so the problem must not be
in the mouse itself, but then I don't know what to suspect.

Details:

Dell Vostro 1501
Desktop KDE4 (I suppose this is 4.1, on the 11.1 DVD)

I have other problems with kde4, but I will ask about these tomorrow,
as it is now 0200 here and I am beat.

Stan,

I've seen that before on several occasions. (admittedly wishy washy
answer) But it is something I have had that generally cures itself. Try
running sax2 again, and then restart the box. When it has occurred on
my boxes, it is like the mouse bit-rate gets confused and then is reset
either through going through the gui setup or just gets happy on the
next boot.

I found out that it is that bad only when there is a mouse connected; then
both mouse and touch panel become really aggravation. So I have
disconnected the mouse (because I haven't yet found how to disable the
touch screen, which I don't like at all.

I succeeded to finish an installation this morning, with KDE4, because I
thought the time had come to get used to it (I have been using KDE3 on my
desktop machine). I am sorry to sound like I am that set in my ways, but
I don't like the KDE4 interface, which seems to have made large numbers
of changes mostly for the sake of change (where have we heard that?).
I've deleted the installation, and will repeat it with KDE3. I will have
a lot of soul searching to do when a release comes out without the KDE3
option.


I trust you know about syndaemon, that disables the touchpad for x number of
seconds after the keyboard is used to help with cursor movements caused by
brushing the touchpad while typing. I use it in an autostart script in kde:

syndaemon -d -p /var/run/dcr/syndaemon.pid -K

IIRC, it also has the ability to completely disable the touchpad in the event
you don't have another way. Give it a look ;-)


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