Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Dan Beauchesne at 2009-03-27 09:43... > I have this issue with a dell latitude e6400. The trackpad works great, > but when I start using the point it jumps around. Doubt this is a software issue - it's generally a sign that it's time to replace the rubber tip. At least such has been my expe

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-26 Thread Dan Beauchesne
I have this issue with a dell latitude e6400. The trackpad works great, but when I start using the point it jumps around. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-26 03:29, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:41:02 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: Hello Ron, trying to work on a plain gray featureless desktop. Back on the pad & no probs. Same thing happens to me on a grey mouse pad with dirty black splotches. And here I am, with optical m

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-25 23:03, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: John W Foster said: [mouse skipping due to grey pad] Now that is what I call a very interesting coincidenceGrey huh!!! I will do some experiments using different shades of gray :-) The same thing happened to a friend using a new optical mouse

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-26 Thread Mark McCorkell
Daryl Styrk wrote: Mine doesn't like the marble table/desk.. Keep a blank sheet of paper around or this really old mouse fabric mouse pad.. Speaking of which and moving slightly off topic.. Anyone know of a pad that has reference material on it? Maybe Debian commands or perhaps bash? I don

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:41:02 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: Hello Ron, > > trying to work on a plain gray featureless desktop. Back on the pad > > & no probs. > Same thing happens to me on a grey mouse pad with dirty black > splotches. And here I am, with optical mouse, that works fine on a grey,

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Daryl Styrk
Mine doesn't like the marble table/desk.. Keep a blank sheet of paper around or this really old mouse fabric mouse pad.. Speaking of which and moving slightly off topic.. Anyone know of a pad that has reference material on it? Maybe Debian commands or perhaps bash? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
John W Foster said: [mouse skipping due to grey pad] > Now that is what I call a very interesting coincidenceGrey huh!!! > > I will do some experiments using different shades of gray :-) The same thing happened to a friend using a new optical mouse on a glass desktop. Cybe R. Wizard --

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:41 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-25 17:31, John W Foster wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: > >>> I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently > >>> the

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-25 17:31, John W Foster wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I mean i

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-26 09:48... > I was disappointed by one optical mouse; for me there are 2 reasons to have > an > optical mouse: no cleaning, and no mouse pad. But this one would not work on > one of those white 8ft folding plastic tables. It seems to me that an > optical > mouse shoul

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:18 -0600, green wrote: > John W Foster wrote at 2009-03-25 16:31 -0600: > > All of the responses were possible candidates, however it seems the real > > culprit was far simpler. My wife had swiped my very old, very highly > > decorated, very large, very soft, MOUSE PAD... T

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread green
John W Foster wrote at 2009-03-25 16:31 -0600: > All of the responses were possible candidates, however it seems the real > culprit was far simpler. My wife had swiped my very old, very highly > decorated, very large, very soft, MOUSE PAD... The optical mouse was > trying to work on a plain gray fe

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: > > I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently > > the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I > > mean it jumps from say the bottom righ

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:54:35 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently > the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I > mean it jumps from say the bottom right to the top left or elsewhere. It > is irregular. Has a

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: > I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently > the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I > mean it jumps from say the bottom right to the top left or elsewhere. It > is irregular. Has anyone not

Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently the mouse is taking unexpected "leaps" around on the screen. By that I mean it jumps from say the bottom right to the top left or elsewhere. It is irregular. Has anyone noticed this behavior? I upgraded stable about 2 days after

Re: Mouse jumping all over the place

2006-01-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Allan Wind wrote: On 2006-01-30T20:49:44+1100, Javier Romero wrote: I was wondering if anyone got back to you on your mouse all over the place problem. you should see mine its uncontrollable.. jumping from here to there, clicking on random things, highlighting heaps of icons etc its driving me

Re: Mouse jumping all over the place

2006-01-30 Thread Allan Wind
On 2006-01-30T20:49:44+1100, Javier Romero wrote: > I was wondering if anyone got back to you on your mouse all over the place > problem. you should see mine its uncontrollable.. jumping from here to > there, clicking on random things, highlighting heaps of icons etc its > driving me nuts, as I am

Re: Mouse jumping all over the place

2006-01-30 Thread Javier Romero
I was wondering if anyone got back to you on your mouse all over the place problem… you should see mine its uncontrollable.. jumping from here to there, clicking on random things, highlighting heaps of icons etc its driving me nuts, as I am typing this it is highlight sentences so I delete

Mouse jumping all over the place >> more info

2005-01-03 Thread J.F.Gratton
I totally forgot to mention that I'm running a kernel 2.6.10 vanilla on a Intel machine. Jeff > Is there a way to get some verbose output out of the mouse/keyboard > subsytems ? I have here a MS Wireless Optical keyboard + mouse (USB, 'f > course). > > Something is happening: from time to time

Mouse jumping all over the place

2005-01-03 Thread J.F.Gratton
Now that I've settled my PDA questions, there's a new phenomenon on my haunted system :) Is there a way to get some verbose output out of the mouse/keyboard subsytems ? I have here a MS Wireless Optical keyboard + mouse (USB, 'f course). Something is happening: from time to time my mouse will jum

Re: Mouse Jumping

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Worrall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:16:16PM -0500, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: >My mouse is jumping all over the place in X. any Idea on how to stop >this. I ve tried changing the device in the XFree86Config file to Imps/2 >and that didn't work. It still jumps a round in X. -- > I found that hard

Re: Mouse Jumping

2002-11-28 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:16:16 -0500, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: >My mouse is jumping all over the place in X. any Idea on how to stop this.  I ve >tried changing the device in the XFree86Config file to Imps/2 and that didn't work. >It still jumps a round in X. It would be nice if you would lose th

RE: Mouse Jumping

2002-11-28 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: Message I read in the archive list that you had to stop gpm daemon and it worked fine for me. So try that first -Original Message-From: Dominic Iadicicco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 November 2002 17:16To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Mouse JumpingMy mouse is

Mouse Jumping

2002-11-28 Thread Dominic Iadicicco
My mouse is jumping all over the place in X. any Idea on how to stop this.  I ve tried changing the device in the XFree86Config file to Imps/2 and that didn't work. It still jumps a round in X. -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with POP3/IMAP access fo

mouse jumping in X

2001-11-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
yep ps -A showed gpm running, trying to "be a mouse handler" took it out of /etc/rc2.d and now X is booming :) shawn __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1

Re: X/WindowManager: Mouse jumping around

2001-10-21 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:42:24PM +0200, Reto wrote: > When I startx the mouse jumps around wildly. It works for some seconds, > then it hops around, also pressing buttons. This makes working impossible, > of course :( > I have Debian Sid, a Logitech cordless Desktop, so a PS/2 mouse, which is

Re: X/WindowManager: Mouse jumping around

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, October 19, 2001 1:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I startx the mouse jumps around wildly. It works for some seconds, > then it hops around, also pressing buttons. This makes working impossible, > of course :( I don't know, some days I think random input is as good as any I can

X/WindowManager: Mouse jumping around

2001-10-19 Thread Reto
Hi again! After the very good tip about the bug with "$REALSTARTUP", I have another problem with X or maybe even at all, I don't know: When I startx the mouse jumps around wildly. It works for some seconds, then it hops around, also pressing buttons. This makes working impossible, of course