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luckmann
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 Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: USB mouse sticking to left border in recent kernels |
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Hello,
can someone help me with my problem? The pointer of the USB mouse of my notebook is jumping to the left screen border (usually after a few minutes), and can only be moved a few pixels to the right before it jumps back to the left border. Up/down movement and the touchpad on the other hand work without problems.
Symptoms:
- This does not happen in 2.6.14-hardened-r8 or older, but constantly in 2.6.16-hardened-r11 and newer.
- So far, this has only happened in X. Even if the problem occurs in X, the mouse works still fine in text mode. Reset of the X server makes the mouse work again (however, for a few minutes only).
- This seems to be independent of the X.org version.
- This seems to be independent of the chosen driver (mouse/evdev) and the chosen protocol (Auto, USB, or ImPS/2).
- No log entries regarding crashed drivers (neither kernel nor X).
The fact that this problem is only dependent on the kernel version, but manifests only in X appears somewhat strange to me.
Does someone have an idea how to resolve this problem?
Regards,
Carsten |
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ce110ut
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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post your xorg config?
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cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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luckmann
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| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:32 am Post subject: |
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Hello,
my xorg.conf:
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Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "synaptics"
Load "evdev"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
# usually using dual head to be able to plug in an external screen/beamer.
# regarding my problem, single head behaves the same
Option "DefaultServerLayout" "dual"
# allow starting X even if the USB mouse is not plugged in.
# value makes no difference to my actual problem.
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
# Synaptics touchpad
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "1100"
Option "RightEdge" "4900"
Option "TopEdge" "800"
Option "BottomEdge" "5300"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.09"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0015"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "1"
Option "TapButton3" "1"
EndSection
# USB mouse, Logitech V200
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Logitech V200"
# evdev allows me to use the tilt wheel.
# driver mouse makes no difference to my problem.
Driver "evdev"
# bug in evdev needs /dev/input/event?
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event9"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 7 6"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
# builtin TFT
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
# external screen
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
# TFT
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "TVFormat" "PAL-B"
Option "TVStandard" "VIDEO"
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00"
Option "ForceMonitors" "lvds,crt1"
Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "0"
Option "Centermode" "off"
Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "off"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
# external screen
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[1]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "on"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
# TFT
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
# external screen
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[1]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
# single head server layout
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Logitech V200" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
# dual head server layout
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "dual"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
Screen "aticonfig-Screen[1]" RightOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Logitech V200" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
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DirtyHairy
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Joined: 03 Jul 2006
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Location: Würzburg, Deutschland
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| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| Try using the "mouse" driver and the "IMPS/2 " protocol instead of the evdev driver (you will have to change the device node used accordingly, of course), that works fine for me (didn't try evdev). |
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luckmann
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| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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Hello!
| DirtyHairy wrote: | | Try using the "mouse" driver and the "IMPS/2 " protocol instead of the evdev driver (you will have to change the device node used accordingly, of course), that works fine for me (didn't try evdev). |
If it were this simple, I would have found the solution before, but as I wrote in my original post, changing the driver to mouse or changing the protocol to "ImPS/2" does not solve this problem. In fact, I could not spot any difference in the mouse behaviour among the protocols Auto, USB, and ImPS/2. The only difference between mouse and evdev seems to be, that the tilt wheel does not work with the "mouse" driver.
Regards,
Carsten |
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Strunzdesign
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Location: Nuremberg - Germany
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
I'm having the exactly same problem here, on lots of different machines (10... a mix from P3 500MHz to Athlon XP 2000+). I'm maintaining several Gentoo installations in our computer lab. All are based on the hardened/2.6 profile. All stable. Recent hardened kernels. PS/2 mice. It's exactly like described above... I really have no idea what's going on.
My suggestion: Perhaps its related to "hardened"? All my non-lab PCs aren't using the hardened profile, and do not suffer from this problem! Any ideas?
Regards,
Florian |
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luckmann
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
meanwhile I've found out that the gentoo-sources don't have the problem, so I think it's not X related but rather kernel related.
Maybe someone knowing more about kernel sources and patches can tell us what went into the hardened-sources somewhere between 2.6.14 and 2.6.16 that did not enter the gentoo-sources.
Carsten |
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luckmann
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject: [Solved?]USB mouse sticking to left border in recent kernels |
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| It looks as if the problem is gone in hardened-sources-2.6.20-r2. |
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