Re: Mouse Problem

[Evan James <ultrasparc@comcast.net>]

The problem is not this mouse, or hardware.  My Wife uses a wireless mouse on her computer, and the same problem happens with her computer.  I have tried different mice also thinking it was a bad mouse.  I have tried wireless mice, and USB wired, different USB ports.  My mouse is a Logitech MBJ58 optical, and I have tried using a Gearhead  OM3400U 3 button optical, a micro$oft sculpt ergonomic model 1560 wireless optical mouse and, her mouse is a Logitech M705 wireless optical.

I am using the MBJ58 mouse now, while writing this message, but I am having to use (UGH) winderz Vista.   

On 10/16/2015 1:12 PM, Tim McDonough wrote:

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Is there anything special about that particular mouse that you have to have?

I would next try to either use your mouse on a totally different computer (Linux or Windows) and/or borrow a different mouse to try on your Linux machine. That way you can see if the problem is perhaps in the mouse itself.

Tim

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Evan James <ultrasparc@comcast.net> wrote:

Dear Linux User Group,

    I am having a problem with my left mouse click not being recognized,
hover is detected, movement is detected, but left mouse click is not being
detected, and once that starts happening right mouse click becomes sketchy.

    I have researched this problem on the net, but being more of a user ,and
not much of a techie about linux I do not know much about the inner
workings.  Some have said it is a compiz problem, or it could be a metacity
problem, or a xorg problem, or a crashed driver problem.

     I can tell you it is not the mouse.  The mouse worked fine in Debian
Squeeze (Gnome 2.30), Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) thru Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid
Lynx), had a slight problem with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), and Ubuntu
11.04 (Natty Narwhal)...but Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity), Ubuntu 12.04, Debian 7(
Gnome 3, LXDE, Xfce), Debian 8, Mint 17.1 (Mate), and Puppy 6... all have
the same problem with the mouse.

     A local Linux user helped me get my mouse working properly in Ubuntu
10.10, and something about removing the Unity desktop drivers in Ubuntu
11.04 and putting Gnome 2.30 in as desktop manager.  He has since left the
area and our local LUG has disbanded (Peoria Linux User Group).

    I have tried to install Debian7 (Wheezy) from DVD, and from net install,
and a apt-get upgrade, but the mouse problem still occurs, so I tried Debian
8 (Jessie) Live, and within 20 minutes the same mouse problem happened.  I
even tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin (Unity)),  Debian 7
(Wheezy) on my Wife's computer, but the same problem persisted.

     I truly want to continue using Debian, but need serious help with this
mouse issue, could you please help.  I live in Peoria,IL, so travel to
Springfield would be kind of limited.

Thank you,

Evan James