On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:08:08PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > hi branden, hi herbert, > > i do not know what it is, but 2.5.3 is "useable" where the mouse event > unreliability is "tolerable" and in 2.4.20 it is completely > unacceptable. > > under 2.4.20, an action as simple as selecting a drop-down menu > causes the mouse to spang into the corner, such that any attempt > to move it is interpreted as a mouse "press" event. > > the menu being selected at the time remains on-screen, and has to > be "unselected" at a later date AFTER the mouse has been recovered. > > "recovery" of the mouse into a stable and useable state > involves having to perform a "press followed by release", > usually on the X-menu (i use fvwm) that will have "accidentally" > been activated. > > after the undesired X-menu has been successfully got rid of, it > is possible to return to the menu which WAS being selected. > > if lucky, it is possible to get rid of that, too. > > > in other words, there is something REALLY horrendous going on and > it is COMPLETELY unacceptable and intolerable. > > i really really hope that this can be resolved, because in the very > near future i will downgrade to xfree86 version 3 in order to be > able to continue using my machine. I have experienced the same thing on my iBook 600 MHz when trying to use the trackpad while using cdparanoia to rip digital audio from the internal DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive. I honestly don't know how the X server could be at fault in this situation. However, in my experience it seldom does any good for me to reassign bugs like this to the kernel, because Herbert will assign them back to me until overwhelming evidence is brought to bear that it's a kernel problem. See, e.g., <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=121335>. (In this case, Herbert insisted that it wasn't a kernel problem until the kernel developers upstream disagreed with him after receiving independent reports.) I am sorry I don't have much information to offer you in this matter. -- G. Branden Robinson | Freedom is kind of a hobby with me, Debian GNU/Linux | and I have disposable income that branden@debian.org | I'll spend to find out how to get http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | people more of it. -- Penn Jillette
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