Losing left mouse button(s)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: udev
The left mouse button of my Asus laptop stops working. It simply does not react to any clicks. The movement of the cursor and right button are not affected. The external (USB) mouse AND touch pad are both affected. Disconnecting or disabling either has no effect. The remaining one will still eventually quit working. The only solution I've found so far (other than a reboot of course) is to restart gdm. I've (so far) never lost the button after a restart of gdm, which is really bizzare.
A similar problem was reported in the forums:
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This was re 8.10 and the problem was solved by blacklisting "Macintosh mouse button emulation" in the hal. If nobody has any better ideas I'll try to figure out how to accomplish this with a udev rule (I'm open to all the hints I can get).
This appears to have happened at some point between the last beta and the release. I hadn't updated this particular laptop in a while and didn't see this until after the release (oops). This may be a kernel error from one of the later updates.
Detected mice:
I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event3
--
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c526 Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-
S: Sysfs=/
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event5
--
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/
S: Sysfs=/
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event11
The old hal fix for a similar (same?) problem:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- 15/12/2008 by BJ
*Match* devices you want to blacklist and *merge* info.ignore to true
Get the necessary info to match with hal-device
-->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.category" contains="input">
<match key="input.product" contains=
<merge key="info.ignore" type="bool"
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: udev 151-12
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
CustomUdevRuleF
Date: Sun May 2 14:16:25 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. N51Vn
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: udev
dmi.bios.date: 08/13/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 217
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: N51Vn
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: N51Vn
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
affects: | udev (Ubuntu) → xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I use 10.10 on Acer 1825 PTZ
I have always to login in a console, restard gdm and than the mouse works. It did not work once in the release. I think it may have worked for a while in the beta.
By the way if I do not restart the gdm before logging in, The left mouse button does not work, so I have to enter the password 4 instead of 3 times.
I did not try any previous ubuntu version.