Mouse Problems with 4.4.3

[eriefisher]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:23:29 -0600
George De Bruin <sndchaser at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is a mis-configured synaptics mouse pad.  I had it turned
> off in Gnome, but anything else that had it turned on would encounter
> the issue. I've turned it off now (after having  to dig around on how
> to do this with the newer HAL implementation in Intrepid).
> 
> If someone was up to writing an XFCE config tool for Synaptics
> devices, I am sure it would be appreciated.  (Alas, I understand that
> there are always more things to do than there are people/resources
> available to do them...)
> 
> George
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > George De Bruin wrote:
> >
> >> Cancel this...I just encountered the same problem in TWM (it just
> >> took several hours for it to happen instead of minutes).
> >> Obviously at this point it's an xorg config issue.
> >>
> >> George
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:56 PM, George De Bruin
> >> <sndchaser at gmail.com<mailto: sndchaser at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>    I have encountered issues with XFCE 4.4.3 (and 4.4.2) on an
> >> Ubuntu 8.10.  I am having problems with the mouse.  After as
> >> little as a minute or two, or sometimes as long as 10-15 minutes
> >> after starting an XFCE session, the mouse starts going nuts.  It's
> >>    acting like the right mouse button is being clicked repeatedly,
> >>    fast enough for the desktop to act as if the button is being
> >>    double-clicked part of the time.
> >>
> >>    The thing about this is that it only happens in XFCE.  I have
> >> both Gnome and TWM installed on the system, and neither of them
> >> show the same issue.
> >>
> >>    I am not finding any messages in the logs, or in the session
> >>    errors, etc. that might lead me to any clues as to why this is
> >>    happening.
> >>
> >>    Has anyone encountered anything like this before?  Is it
> >> something that might be specific to Ubuntu builds of XFCE (4.4.3 is
> >>    installed from the backports, 4.4.2 was the official
> >> packages).  I normally like to think that I might have a clue
> >> about how to diagnose this issue, but at this point I am somewhat
> >> at a loss.
> >>
> >>    George
> >>
> >>
> > Sounds more like a broken mouse. Have you tried it with another one?
> >
> > Bob S.
> >
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> 
> 
> 
This sounds like as known bug(can't provide links atm) and I have
experienced similar issues. Here is what I did, I pass "i8042.nomux=1"
to the kernel at boot via grub. It seems to have tamed the touchpad.

eriefisher