On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 19:28 +0200, Frédéric wrote: > it seems simpler than that. We tested another mouse and it worked > much better. So it's probably the wire that has false contact.
Mice do wear out. The cable, the connections, are subject to metal fatigue. Fluff getting into optical sensors can make them erratic. Buttons wear out, the soldering around the buttons goes bad. I've had several PS/2 mice, and I think a couple of USB ones, where the computer didn't seem to supply enough power to drive them, or was giving them electrical noise, and they'd frequently go whizzing all over the screen madly clicking on things. On a long cable, or plugged into front panel sockets they'd do this very often. But plugged straight into the motherboard socket they were usually fine. I have at least one mouse that rapidly goes into a power save mode, and is repeatedly logged as disconnecting when you leave it idle. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
