{"id":90,"date":"2007-09-27T16:13:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/09\/27\/debian-weird-mouse-behaviour\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T20:13:42","slug":"debian-weird-mouse-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/09\/27\/debian-weird-mouse-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian: weird mouse behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clicks register as double-clicks<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t access menus in Firefox\/Iceweseal using the mouse<\/li>\n<li>Selecting icons on the desktop is difficult, more than one gets selected.<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t click on items in the top Panel, but can on the lower panel<\/li>\n<li>Clicking on a Window&#8217;s border causes it maximise then return to it&#8217;s former size<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bizarre, and annoying! Much googling has turned up almost nought, except for this bug report:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=427406\">http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=427406<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debianhelp.org\/node\/10348\">DebianHelp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try upgrading to Metacity 2.20.0-1 from Unstable:<\/p>\n<p>apt-get install -t unstable metacity<\/p>\n<p>And of course that doesn&#8217;t help!<\/p>\n<p>In my xorg.conf, I&#8217;ve 2 mice configured:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Section &#8220;InputDevice&#8221;<br \/>\nIdentifier    &#8220;Configured Mouse&#8221;<br \/>\nDriver        &#8220;mouse&#8221;<br \/>\nOption        &#8220;CorePointer&#8221;<br \/>\nOption        &#8220;Device&#8221;        &#8220;\/dev\/psaux&#8221;<br \/>\n#    Option        &#8220;Protocol&#8221;        &#8220;PS\/2&#8221;<br \/>\nOption        &#8220;Protocol&#8221;        &#8220;ImPS\/2&#8221;<br \/>\n#    Option        &#8220;Emulate3Buttons&#8221;    &#8220;true&#8221;<br \/>\nOption        &#8220;ZAxisMapping&#8221;        &#8220;4 5&#8221;<br \/>\nEndSection<br \/>\nSection &#8220;InputDevice&#8221;<br \/>\nIdentifier    &#8220;Generic Mouse&#8221;<br \/>\nDriver        &#8220;mouse&#8221;<br \/>\nOption        &#8220;SendCoreEvents&#8221;    &#8220;true&#8221;<br \/>\nOption        &#8220;Device&#8221;        &#8220;\/dev\/input\/mice&#8221;<br \/>\nOption        &#8220;Protocol&#8221;        &#8220;ImPS\/2&#8221;<br \/>\nOption        &#8220;ZAxisMapping&#8221;        &#8220;4 5&#8221;<br \/>\nEndSection<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 &#8220;Configure Mouse&#8221; section, and that didn&#8217;t make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Switching to the Opensource Nvidia driver (nv) didn&#8217;t do it. So it makes me think it&#8217;s a kernel specific problem.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to 2.6.18-4 kernel and the nv driver (as I can&#8217;t get the Debian packaged nvidia driver to work with 2.6.18). Same behaviour there, which means it&#8217;s not the nvidia driver or the kernel so it must be Xorg! And after some googling found this recent bug report:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=443503\"> http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=443503 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br \/>\nnvidia-glx: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (&gt;= 2:1.4) but 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12 is installed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t access menus in Firefox\/Iceweseal using the mouse Selecting icons on the desktop is difficult, more than one gets selected. Can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/09\/27\/debian-weird-mouse-behaviour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Debian: weird mouse behaviour<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}