[ale] weird mouse problem

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 21:20 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> 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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Well, anecdotal but...yesterday playing with lxde and compiz, I
completely lost my mouse clicks for minutes, then they came back.
Perhaps we are seeing a bug.  Or they are unrelated.  
-- 
Damon
damon at damtek.com