Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.3+10
Severity: important
I'm not sure this is a real bug or something else altogether; I'm
filing a bug anyway since my mouse and trackpad was almost unusable
for some time and I didn't know what was causing it. I couldn't find
any similar xorg bug in the BTS, so perhaps this is peculiar to my
hardware (Thinkpad R61, Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse 1.0A)?
So this is what happened: after a bunch of lenny upgrades, my laptop's
trackpad and the mouse started to act weird. These are the symptoms:
* Single clicks act like double clicks, i.e., launches items on
GNOME desktop instead of selecting those items.
* There is no way to single click on anything.
* Clicking on launchers on GNOME panel will not launch anything.
* Switching to XFCE did not make any difference. I didn't try
anything else.
* I've this obsessive-compulsive syndrome -- I need to resize
those large desktop icons, content preview and all, to smaller
sizes when I have a new PDF file, image, or video. Clicking
"stretch icon" item on the context menu started to crash
nautilus. So I installed a bunch of GNOME -dbg packages as well.
However after this I could not bring up the context menu again --
left-clicking would just de-select the icon now.
I found this problem report and fix in a KDE list:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=121096419029110&w=2
The same change in xorg.conf as mentioned in the above mailing list
post fixed my problem, which would be, in xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
- Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
+ Option "SendCoreEvents" "false"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
I didn't had to reboot, simply restarting X fixed it.
Thanks for any attention on this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xorg depends on:
ii gnome-terminal [x-t 2.22.1-1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.0.3-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa 7.0.3-1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii x11-apps 7.3+1 X applications
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.3+1 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.3+1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+1 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+2 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.3-1 X authentication utility
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+1 X Window System font utility progr
ii xinit 1.0.8-1 X server initialisation tool
ii xkb-data 1.2~cvs.20080501.1-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10 the X.Org X server
ii xterm [x-terminal-e 235-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages xorg recommends:
ii xorg-docs 1:1.4-2 Miscellaneous documentation for th
-- no debconf information
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