Left click stops working on touchpad or USB mouse

[Shimi Chen]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-mouse

After using my Dell Studio 1555 for a while either the left mouse button of the touchpad or the left mouse button of the USB mouse stop working.

Workaround: if the left button on the touchpad doesn't work, left clicking on the USB Mouse makes the left button on the touchpad work again, and vice versa.

This happens with three different USB mouses so probably not the mouse's fault. Although I didn't use it much, the laptop came with WIndows Vista and it didn't happen there.

On Ubuntu Lucid it sometimes happened even if no USB mouse was connected, so had to connect a USB mouse and click on it for the touchpad button to work again. This did not happen so far with Maverick or Mint Julia(the "normal" bug does occur on both to be clear).

Never happened that both touchpad and USB left buttons stop working simutaniously.

Current version of xserver-xorg-input-mouse is 1:1.5.0-2build1.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

is it any different on 11.04?

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

Seems like the frequency is lower but still happens on 11.04.
After one week with Natty it only happened once.

For comparison in Lucid it was a daily routine.

[Lars Bahner (bahner)]

My kids have a Lenovo T43 left clicking does not work at all. Being somewhat historically challenged I recently reinstalled Natty from scratch. The left mouse button does not work at all for any mouse I try to throw at it.

Please let me know if there is any log you would like to see regarding this matter.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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