[ale] weird mouse problem

[Jim Philips]

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
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com<Jim%20Philips%20%3cbriarpatch.jim at gmail.com%3e>
> >
> *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...
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com<Jim%20Philips%20%3cbriarpatch.jim at gmail.com%3e>
> >
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>
>  *To*: rfaulkner at 34thprs.org, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run
> Linux! <ale at ale.org<Atlanta%20Linux%20Enthusiasts%20-%20Yes%21%20We%20run%20Linux%21%20%3cale at ale.org%3e>
> >
> *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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