In my last post I upgraded to the 2.6.22 kernel to get the nvidia closed source driver to work. Since then the behaviour of the mouse has been very weird:
- Clicks register as double-clicks
- Can’t access menus in Firefox/Iceweseal using the mouse
- Selecting icons on the desktop is difficult, more than one gets selected.
- Can’t click on items in the top Panel, but can on the lower panel
- Clicking on a Window’s border causes it maximise then return to it’s former size
Bizarre, and annoying! Much googling has turned up almost nought, except for this bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427406
Found via DebianHelp
I’ll try upgrading to Metacity 2.20.0-1 from Unstable:
apt-get install -t unstable metacity
And of course that doesn’t help!
In my xorg.conf, I’ve 2 mice configured:
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
# Option “Protocol” “PS/2”
Option “Protocol” “ImPS/2”
# Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “ImPS/2”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5”
EndSection
This is in case my USB mouse craps out and I need to plugin an old PS/2 mouse. This has worked fine for at least a few years, but I suspect the 2.6.22 kernel, or the nvidia driver is getting confused by this. I commented out the “Configure Mouse” section, and that didn’t make a difference.
Switching to the Opensource Nvidia driver (nv) didn’t do it. So it makes me think it’s a kernel specific problem.
Going back to 2.6.18-4 kernel and the nv driver (as I can’t get the Debian packaged nvidia driver to work with 2.6.18). Same behaviour there, which means it’s not the nvidia driver or the kernel so it must be Xorg! And after some googling found this recent bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443503
I sent a couple e-mail to the bug report, with no reply. So, I downgraded to Xorg from testing and had to manually install xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.3.0.0.dfsg-12_i386.deb . Which cause nvidia-glx to be removed:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nvidia-glx: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.4) but 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12 is installed.