[Novalug] mis-handling mouse events?

James Ewing Cottrell, III jecottrell3@comcast.net
Mon Mar 9 11:08:22 EDT 2015


Good Advice. But the first computer I had had a Bad Motherboard. The Symptoms were that the mouse would freeze up.

Also, it can be a Motherboard Battery.

JIM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Smith via Novalug" <novalug@firemountain.net>
To: "Novalug" <novalug@firemountain.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 7:10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Novalug] mis-handling mouse events?

looks like a bad mouse.  renewal of lesson: when confused, start at
hardware layer and work your way up.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 09:52:54PM -0500, Ed James via Novalug wrote:
> If'n it were me, I'd try using "xev" to see what signals are being sent
> when the mouse is moved, clicked, etc.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection/xev
> 
> Ed James
> 
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Mark Smith via Novalug <
> novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> 
> > Not sure how to explain this, but my Ubuntu 14.04 setup at home seems
> > to be loses mouse events.  sometimes, not always, i have to click twice
> > to get it to do something.  sometimes an extra click is thrown in there.
> > when i pick up a window to move it by grabbing the title bar, it randomly
> > drops it at some point during the operation.

-- 
Hei konā mai
Mark Smith
mark@winksmith.com
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