Re: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity

On 18 Dec 2007, at 20:53, cs wrote:

> I've not managed to define precisely when I get borrows but I'm
> noticing
> the following symptoms and was wondering if some kind soul would
> help me
> debug what's going on in order to get to a solution? Thanks, Michael
>
> set-up: etch, gnome (eg gnome-core 2.14.3.6), metacity 2.14.5-4 and
> Dell/Logitech USB optical mouse (seems to work fine in WinXP), with
> nVidia graphics card/TwinView and 2 monitors (diff resolutions)
>
> symptoms (occasional and not sure how to repeat)
>
> a) double clicking won't select anything
> b) in evolution, clicking on a new message or folder has no effect
> c) the cursor (arrowhead) disappears - if I set prefs to show
> cursor by
> depressing 'CNTL' I get the moving rectangles but there's no cursor
> there)
> d) focus doesn't move to new window (as it should and usually does)
>
> I think the following is also a symptom but not 100% sure:
> e) doing ALT-TAB to move between windows does nothing on very first
> ALT-TAB
>
> Any thoughts???
> Or am I just going mad, slowly??
>
> Thanks, M
>

and about .5 hour later my USB keyboard is unresposive too - I could maximize/restore windows using the mouse but 5 mins later and although the cursor will move nothing else is happening (can't go to cntl-alt-F1 and mouse won't resize windows or change focus)

logging in from another machine doesn't show up any errors in syslog and there's no excessive load and the USB mouse/keyboard are still listed under lsusb:

mkb@amd64:/var/log$ lsusb

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c00c Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:0111 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

(Yes I perhaps should have said it's an AMD 64bit chip?)

So, any thoughts before I reboot (or for next time it ends up in this state)???

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Thanks, MIchael

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