mouse input issues.

[O. Sinclair]

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On 10/09/2014 02:53, seawing wrote:
> I plugged in my usb keyboard and now everything is working.  For
> how long I don't know, but that is how it has been going.
> 
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> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:38 PM, seawing <Jason at seawingdesigns.com 
> <mailto:Jason at seawingdesigns.com>> wrote:
> 
> OK, this is totally bizarre.  I moved my mouse transmitter to a 
> different USB port and now the click problem seems to be gone, but 
> now my ps2 keyboard stopped working.  {how do you make the
> emoticon of pulling your hair out?}
> 
> 
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> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Scott DuBois <sdubois at linux.com 
> <mailto:sdubois at linux.com>> wrote:
> 
> On 09/09/2014 04:54 PM, seawing wrote:
>> Thanks Scott.  This behavior seems to be effecting any window
>> that I have open. I don't believe that I have a mouse driver, and
>> if I do it is pre-installed.  I am using a logitec wireless
>> mouse.  I broke my only PS2 mouse right at the begining of this
>> process so I don't currently have one to test with.  I do have a
>> ps2 adapter that I will try.
>> 
>> I am making it limp along by doing what I said earlier, dragging
>> a tab in a window and dropping it makes all the areas active. as
>> soon as I click on something, change to a different open
>> application for example, then only the application buttons are
>> active and the tabs and buttons in the window are not active.  I
>> then grab one of those application buttons, like the Firefox or
>> konqueror buttons and act like I am dragging them to the desktop,
>> but then drop them back where they were and then all the buttons
>> are active again. much have to shut down This mostly works until
>> something happens where no buttons work and the only way to
>> switch applications is to alt+tab.  This sometimes gets it 
>> unstuck.
>> 
>> This morning instead of having a click problem I was having a
>> white flashing screen.  I changed to the x.org <http://x.org>
> <http://x.org> x server video
>> driver and that went away.  I thought all of my problems were
>> solved, but after half an hour of working the click problem came
>> back.
>> 
>> I have disabled all the desktop effects, but that didn't help.
>> 
>> I will try the ps2 adapter now.
>> 
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>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Scott DuBois <sdubois at linux.com
>> <mailto:sdubois at linux.com> <mailto:sdubois at linux.com
>> <mailto:sdubois at linux.com>>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 09/08/2014 05:19 PM, seawing wrote:
>>> I don't think so because it is pretty specific.  I can click on
>>> some things and not others.  I can continue to click around
>>> tabs for instance, but not close or minimize the window.
>>> 
>> 
>> Can you narrow it down to "certain" programs? Because right now
>> the little info to go on is just too broad to really nail
>> something down.
>> 
>> Mouse drivers? Try a different mouse if you can. Have you tried 
>> unplugging it then rebooting then plugging the mouse back in to
>> be re-detected?
>> 
>> If you have an adapter, try the PS2 port and see if that works.
>> 
> 
> Man, I would be throwing things and cursing with these kinds of 
> problems. Congrats for staying cool. :-)
> 
> Um, something someone once threw at me as a diagnosis tool is to 
> create a new "user" that is bare-bone and see if the problem goes
> away. Then we can determine if the problem is user-settings related
> or global.
> 
> Good thinking about turning off all the eye candy! +1
> 
it sounds like hardware issues to me - on the older laptop in the
house one of the usb ports is simply not working any more though it
can be used to charge phones etc


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