radioraheem
May 30th, 2009, 02:16 AM
I did a direct upgrade of 8.10 to 9.04 and everything seemed to go smoothly except for one HUGE problem.
Mouse and keyboard work fine on the login screen (I did notice it won't select different options in the sessions menu, but tab/enter works fine) but as soon as I have ANY windows open once logged in to gnome the mouse goes haywire, and occasionally the keyboard.
Keyboard is wired ps/2, mouse is a pretty run of the mill logitech wireless.
The only thing that will give me back regular mouse control is if I right click like crazy randomly all over the screen. One time I managed to open the trash in nautilus before it went crazy, but then it interpreted _every single_ mouse click as me wanting to open a new window. I started closing them with ctrl+f4 after about 40 appeared.
I know a lot of people have reported problems with the Xorg to HAL transition, and I'm still learning the ropes of hal myself.
lshal | grep mouse
access_control.type = 'mouse' (string)
info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.mouse', 'access_control'} (string list)
info.product = 'Macintosh mouse button emulation' (string)
input.product = 'Macintosh mouse button emulation' (string)
battery.type = 'mouse' (string)
access_control.type = 'mouse' (string)
info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.mouse', 'access_control'} (string list)
obviously I'm not using a macintosh mouse with this desktop, but I'm not sure if those settings are relevant to my problem either.
I plugged in a wired mouse and that really seemed to confuse it. the pointer worked but the clicks would register elsewhere, and double clicking seemed to lock in this effect. If I double click a blank line in a terminal I can just move the mouse, double click anywhere else on the monitor, and you can see the line in the terminal re-highlight itself over and over, etc etc etc.
If It wasn't completely killing my desktop use right now I'd almost admire it because I've never seen anything like it before.
Anyone have any advice while I continue to google things frantically? :D
Thanks
Mouse and keyboard work fine on the login screen (I did notice it won't select different options in the sessions menu, but tab/enter works fine) but as soon as I have ANY windows open once logged in to gnome the mouse goes haywire, and occasionally the keyboard.
Keyboard is wired ps/2, mouse is a pretty run of the mill logitech wireless.
The only thing that will give me back regular mouse control is if I right click like crazy randomly all over the screen. One time I managed to open the trash in nautilus before it went crazy, but then it interpreted _every single_ mouse click as me wanting to open a new window. I started closing them with ctrl+f4 after about 40 appeared.
I know a lot of people have reported problems with the Xorg to HAL transition, and I'm still learning the ropes of hal myself.
lshal | grep mouse
access_control.type = 'mouse' (string)
info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.mouse', 'access_control'} (string list)
info.product = 'Macintosh mouse button emulation' (string)
input.product = 'Macintosh mouse button emulation' (string)
battery.type = 'mouse' (string)
access_control.type = 'mouse' (string)
info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.mouse', 'access_control'} (string list)
obviously I'm not using a macintosh mouse with this desktop, but I'm not sure if those settings are relevant to my problem either.
I plugged in a wired mouse and that really seemed to confuse it. the pointer worked but the clicks would register elsewhere, and double clicking seemed to lock in this effect. If I double click a blank line in a terminal I can just move the mouse, double click anywhere else on the monitor, and you can see the line in the terminal re-highlight itself over and over, etc etc etc.
If It wasn't completely killing my desktop use right now I'd almost admire it because I've never seen anything like it before.
Anyone have any advice while I continue to google things frantically? :D
Thanks