[ale] weird mouse problem

Jim Philips briarpatch.jim at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 21:25:53 EDT 2010


I solved the problem in an unfair way. I upgraded Ubuntu to Maverick
10.10. No more problems.

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 21:45 -0400, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> I had the same thing happen a couple days ago while running Evolution
> on Fedora 12 (see my earlier posting).  Evo is buggy enough and I
> tossed it off as an issue with 2.28.3 but still wonder if there was a
> separate issue with the mouse that killed Evo.  I have not been able
> to reproduce the issue and my system did respond to keyboard input
> just as you report.  My mouse was working fine in M$ as well but my M$
> drive appears to have taken a dump (no longer booting as of this
> PM)...gee...that's too bad...so I guess I won't be doing that check!
> (hehehe)
> 
> Rich in Lilburn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
> Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] weird mouse problem
> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:20:58 -0400
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. Everything had been working okay. But today,
> I got this problem with the mouse where no mouse clicks have any
> effect. The cursor moves just fine. But no clicks seem to register.
> The logs indicate some issue with USB and it is plugged into a USB
> port. But I can't highlight and copy the text, because that would
> imply mouse clicks. I can type commands at the command line. Any idea
> where I should start looking? 
> 
> By the way, the mouse works fine in Windows. 
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