bouncy mouse

mounty1 · l33t Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 934 Location: Queensland

This might be a GUI question or it might be a Kernel/hardware question.

The hardware is an ASRock K8 Combo Z mobo, ATI 9800, AMD64, 1 GiB RAM etc.

The software is the up-to-date KDE 3.5 on Xorg, emerge --synced and emerge -quDN worlded as of six hours ago.

The problem is that the mouse button is not debounced; that is, a single click can lead to a click and release or a double click. This did not happen with Mandriva 2006 or Ubuntu, both of which have run on the same hardware. The mouse is a USB Logitech optical, corded.

Is there a setting somewhere with which one can decrease the sensitivity of the button ? or has the mouse really suddenly become bouncy ?
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Check whether it's simply a hardware problem with the mouse - load a LiveCD and see if the mouse has the same problem.

champ · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:15 am Post subject:

Two suggestions:

First, you can change the mouse settings in KDE control center.

Second, it could be the mouse (or mouse cable). Mice do go bad once in awhile. I have had two mice die (the USB could no longer detect the mouse) and had to replace them.
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mounty1 · l33t Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 934 Location: Queensland