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Bug#485186: marked as done (Mouse and trackpad acts weird with xorg 1:7.3+10)

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regarding Mouse and trackpad acts weird with xorg 1:7.3+10
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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

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
EndSection

These sections are causing the problem. /dev/input/mice contains /dev/psaux.
So each click is reported twice. That's why click on launchers does nothing,
it opens and closes back immediately. Removing one of the above option will
fix this.

Brice

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