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Re: Mouse trouble on sid



Am Tue, May 16, 2023 at 07:26:41PM +0100 schrieb Joe:

Hello Joe,

> On Tue, 16 May 2023 12:29:02 +0200
> Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:02:50AM +0100 schrieb Joe:
> > 
> > Hello Joe,
> > 
> > [...deleted a lot...]
> > > On Tue, 16 May 2023 10:44:03 +0100
> > > Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > > One idea is to try a minimalistic window manager as twm to find
> > > > > out if the issue is related to xfce.    
> > > > 
> > > > OK, tried twm and fvvm. Both unusable, as a left-click brings up a
> > > > menu for a fraction of a second. Couldn't log out of either, had
> > > > to switch to console and uninstall them. But they confirm the
> > > > mouse problem. It's obviously fairly fundamental.
> > > > 
> > > > Just tried previous kernel, but also bad. I can assume by now that
> > > > nobody else has seen this problem.  
> > > 
> > > Just as a sanity check, I booted Knoppix, and of course there's no
> > > problem, it's just an order of magnitude too slow from USB to do
> > > anything useful.  
> > 
> > Now it seems as if the issue is related to X or the driver stuff.
> > I have three ideas.
> > 
> > 1. Do you have any xorg.conf things in /etc or the related
> > directories? Nowadays X is not so bad in guessing the hardware which
> > makes xorg.conf and such obsolete. If there are X config files it
> > might be worth to move them to a safe place and to try without them.
> 
> I can't find anything. This is a relatively new sid (installed on new
> hardware, opportunity to get rid of some junk) and I have never needed
> to mess about with X.
> > 
> > 2. It is unlikely, but it might be that some of the xinput related
> > programs or libraries have been corrupted. It might help to reinstall
> > them.
> 
> I have nothing in the apt cache, so I'll need to locate debs. I
> eventually gave up and copied out the (possibly) offending upgrade log
> and added newlines so it was actually readable. What jumped out then
> were three xserver packages (from a total of 118). I located previous
> versions in the cache, installed them, rebooted and confirmed they were
> now running, and... just the same. 

My only remaining idea is that packages have been corrupted during
download. This is not likely but can have multiple root causes.

I do not know if apt or dpkg check the integrity of the packages
before installation. I also do not know by heart how to check them
manually.

If this does not help I am running out of ideas.
I do not think that it is a hardware issue because Knoppix works.
I do not think that it is a general issue of sid because then the same
issue would have been seen by other users.
It should be related to "something" on your machine.

> > 
> > 3. The comparison of Xorg.log of Debian and Knoppix may give some
> > indication.
> 
> They look broadly similar, although it is easy to miss things among
> that much output.

I wish you will find the issue. In case I will have new ideas or so
I will chime in again.

Kind regards,
Christoph
-- 
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