touch screen, charging, pointer craziness

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 October 2015 at 08:22, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have a number of odd things going on.  Reverting to an earlier kernel
> does
> > not seem to make any difference.
> >
> > 1) sometimes the mouse pointer drags itself to launcher, which I have
> set to
> > autohide, and gets rather stucke there while it, well, vibrates.  Sits
> there
> > and jiggles.  Most of the time I can drag it back and it resumes working.
> >
> > 2) I have a touch screen laptop.  After 14 months of working perfectly,
> it
> > will work for a few minutes after a reboot and then refuse to work any
> > longer.  Occasionally resetting lightdm gets it going again, but usually
> for
> > just a few minutes.
> >
> > 3) Sometimes after a reboot or removing the plug, the battery meter shows
> > that the battery is discharging.  If I remove then reinsert the plug
> several
> > times it will show it is charging again.  The power supply shows the 19.2
> > volts it should.
> >
> > I doubt these items are related other than they all started happening at
> the
> > same time.
> >
> > Sometimes it seems to help if I remove all power sources and hold the
> start
> > button down.  Lately that hasn't helped.
>
> That sounds very much like hardware.  Does the fan seem to be running
> more than it used to?  If so open the back up and give it a good clean
> out with a vacuum cleaner.
> If that does not seem to help (or even if it does) try booting into
> the ram test and leave it going for a few hours to see if it shows any
> problems.
>
> As to the mouse, if it is battery driven then try a new battery,
> though hopefully you have tried that already.  Otherwise try a
> different mouse.
>
> Do you see anything in syslog when it starts going wrong?
>
> Colin
>
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Hardware it certainly could be-  so central could it be mother board?
Mouse- the issue applies to pointer whether mouse or touch pad.  I will
check syslog next time.  Fan is not running much.  I'll install temp sensor
and check again.

thanks for the replies!


garyk
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