Re: Mouse trouble on sid
On Wed, 17 May 2023 06:35:54 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 08:07:51PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 May 2023 13:43:26 -0500
> > Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > <flakey mouse behavior>
> > >
> > > Just for kicks, unplug the keyboard and see if the mouse starts
> > > behaving.
> >
> >
> > No, no change.
>
> No surprise. People still barking up the hardware tree,
> while all evidence is pointing up the software tree :)
I think so.
>
> - change came with an upgrade
Probably, nothing else was changed or installed around that time. I
have rolled back the kernel and the three xserver packages to no effect,
and there seem to be no other possible suspects. But there were 118
packages, including several libraries.
> - change from wireless mouse to wired: no effect
> - other distro: mouse works
>
> If you are able to get a terminal running under your
> crippled X11 [1], then it'd be interesting to compare
> the output of "xinput --list --long" between a working
> and a non-working config.
OK, done for sid, I'll boot into Knoppix when I have a moment.
>
> My hunch would be that something's rotten in the state
> of Sid.
Definitely. I'm hoping to avoid reinstalling, at least partly because I
may well just reinstall the problem, but GIMP and.some other things are
unusable at the moment.
>
>
Thanks for your help.
Joe
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