After a power failure, I have a seriuous problem with my mouse:
It stays at the upper left corner of the screen, and when I move the mouse,
the pointer just moves a few mm, and returns to the corner.
This happens only in graphic mode, even at the login screen.
In all the consoles, the mouse works
On Friday 07 October 2011 11:05:01 Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
After a power failure, I have a seriuous problem with my mouse:
It stays at the upper left corner of the screen, and when I move the mouse,
the pointer just moves a few mm, and returns to the corner.
This happens only in graphic mode,
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
Can you try to create a new user and see if the mouse is working?
The problem is not related with any user's config, as it occurs,
as I said, at the login screen.
I also tried to start X without any Session manager,
by just running startx
On 07/10/11 20:37, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
Can you try to create a new user and see if the mouse is working?
The problem is not related with any user's config, as it occurs,
as I said, at the login screen.
I also tried to start X without
On Fri 07 Oct 2011 at 11:37:36 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
Can you try to create a new user and see if the mouse is working?
The problem is not related with any user's config, as it occurs,
as I said, at the login screen.
I also tried to
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Sounds like gpm is using your mouse - which would stop it working in x
(be stuck up top-left).
It was a possible explanation, but alas it is not: the problem remains
after stopping gpm.
I must add that the mouse buttons are working: when I
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Brian wrote:
sed in X. What the status of dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg is
these days I do not know but I thought it either wasn't needed or didn't
do anything useful.
If you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, move it out of the way and restart X or
reboot.
nowadays,
On 07/10/11 21:41, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Brian wrote:
sed in X. What the status of dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg is
these days I do not know but I thought it either wasn't needed or didn't
do anything useful.
If you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, move it out of the
On Fri 07 Oct 2011 at 12:41:02 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
I tried to play with an old xorg.conf file, but anything I do, including
removing the file, doesn't solve the problem.
Desktop? Laptop? USB. PS/2 etc mouse? Do you have a another mouse to
test?
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Lack of an /etc/X11/xorg.conf shouldn't cause a problem... but udev
might not be picking one up (though I don't understand how a power
failure would kill that, but allow gpm to function).
One may think that the real cause was not the power failure
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Brian wrote:
Desktop? Laptop? USB. PS/2 etc mouse? Do you have a another mouse to
test?
Desktop/usb. But as it worked with gpm, and with a live cd, I didn't
think useful to try with an other mouse.
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