Re: Mouse trouble on sid
On Wed, 17 May 2023 12:18:17 +0200
Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkhaus@t-online.de> wrote:
> 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.
Me too.
> 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.
Yes, to all of that. I'm getting closer to reinstalling, which is an
admission of defeat.
Thank you for your time and efforts, and everyone else who responded.
If I do have any success I'll report back. As well as the bug report...
Joe
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