Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

[Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>]

On Friday 07 October 2011 11:05:01 Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> After a power failure, I have a seriuous problem with my mouse:
> It stays at the upper left corner of the screen, and when I move the mouse,
> the pointer just moves a few mm, and returns to the corner.
> This happens only in graphic mode, even at the login screen.
> In all the consoles, the mouse works perfectly, and also if I boot
> from a live cd. So, it's not a hardware problem. I thought it was related
> to the X server, so I first re-ran the config program
>              sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> which didn't solve the problem.
> Then I re-installed all xserver packages ==> problem remains.
> Now, I've no idea where to look at.
> I would appreciate any help, as working only in console mode
> is a strong limitation !
> ,

Can you try to create a new user and see if the mouse is working?
Thierry