On 2009-03-25 17:31, John W Foster wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote:
>>> I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently
>>> the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I
>>> mean it jumps from say the bottom right to the top left or elsewhere. It
>>> is irregular. Has anyone noticed this behavior? I upgraded stable about
>>> 2 days after it was declared and have continued to keep it upgraded.
>>> There are no other apps from other distros of Debian. I do have some
>>> roll my owns and a couple of installations using checkinstall, but
>>> nothing involving the mouse or xorg. Any ideas? This mouse has been
>>> working fine for a couple of years, & is a Logictech USB 3-button
>>> w/scroll wheel. Mod. # M-BT85. Optic mouse. This is not a disaster but
>>> is annoying.
>> Does the mouse work in another computer? Do other mice exhibit the same
>> symptoms?
>>
>>> Please CC; me as gmail tosses a lot of replies.
>> Done,
>> Andrei
> Thanks: Andrei, Lisi, Matthew;
> All of the responses were possible candidates, however it seems the real
> culprit was far simpler. My wife had swiped my very old, very highly
> decorated, very large, very soft, MOUSE PAD... The optical mouse was
> trying to work on a plain gray featureless desktop. Back on the pad & no
> probs.
Same thing happens to me on a grey mouse pad with dirty black splotches.
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