Mouse feedback off by quite a bit

[Mahesh Asolkar]

When I am using the notebook-remix interface, I notice that mouse feedback is off by quite a bit. Application icons (and other links) are highlighted as if the mouse hovered over them, but the mouse pointer is nowhere close to the icon. Icons under the mouse pointer are not highlighted. It is very hard to click and start an application with the mouse.

This only happens in the notebook-remix interface. Everywhere else, the mouse behaves well.

I've uploaded a video to YouTube to demonstrate this: http://bit.ly/5oi5Z .This video was recorded when using the Jolicloud operating system. But I am running Ubuntu Karmic Netbook Remix and seeing exactly same behavior.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-3-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 14 16:04:41 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 11 06:42:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20090723)
Package: ubuntu-netbook-remix 1.147
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: unr-meta
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this and help make Ubuntu better. It would be helpful if you could please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of 'xinput list'

[Mahesh Asolkar (asolkar)]

Attaching the requested Xorg.0.log and 'xinput list' output files.

[Mahesh Asolkar (asolkar)]

I would like to add that I am running the daily build from today (17th Aug 2009, 10:30PM PST) to generate these files.

I noticed that the new UNR interface in. The mouse seems even more broken. Now the mouse seems completely inactive. No hovering, no clicking. I have to navigate with the keyboard.

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

Does this only happen in launcher, or does it also happen in applications? For example, if you open firefox, does the mouse go to the right place when you try to click on a link?

Please also run "apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 411788"

[Mahesh Asolkar (asolkar)]

This only happens in the launcher. Everywhere else it is just fine. I can use applications - Firefox, Terminal, etc. - normally.

I will collect the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics data as you suggested shortly.

[Mahesh Asolkar (asolkar)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20090818)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VGN-T140P(UC)
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.1.2-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/netbook-remix.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.5-1ubuntu1
 libdrm2 2.4.12-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu5
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 08/17/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: R0021G7
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 4C1L00008a002721891e375656b4
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrR0021G7:bd08/17/2004:svnSonyCorporation:pnVGN-T140P(UC):pvrJ000GRM8:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VGN-T140P(UC)
dmi.product.version: J000GRM8
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-5-generic

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

Odd, I originally thought it may be related to the touchpad driver, but it's only happening for you in launcher.

[Mahesh Asolkar (asolkar)]

When I was playing around, trying to find if the mouse works at all in the launcher, I noticed that if I hover over a button long enough (30 seconds to a minute) *sometimes* the button gets highlighted. I still cannot click on it though.

I am inclined towards this being a netbook-launcher issue because the behavior worsened significantly after the new interface for UNR was introduced.

[Joe (joejgarcia)]

This has been an issue for a while now... I have no clue what is causing it but I am seeing the same thing on my thinkpad R51. It also seem to be the same issue seen in this bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netbook-launcher/+bug/368394

[Esben Haabendal (esben-haabendal)]

I agree, this looks very likely to be dupplicate of 368394.
And is a 99% blocking issue for affected users of netbook-launcher.

[mike d (mike-w-dykstra)]

For me, the focus is always correct, but the icons do not respond to clicks, about 50% of the time. They will even flash as though responding to the click, but not fire the app. (karmic, acer aspire 1410)

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

The karmic version of ubuntu-netbook isn't the same than the one presented and the one that jolicloud have.