Comment 3 for bug 375905

I too am experience this issue, as described almost daily, with today being especially troublesome.

My system is a DELL Precision M6400 running ubuntu 9.04 (64 bit). I have seen issues with both the built in mouse-pad on this laptop, and external DELL usb wheel mouse.

Sometimes if I switch between the two mouse devices, I am able to re-gain control momentarily, othertimes, this doesn't help.

Other issues, is a see random mouse movements, (IE the cursor will move across the screen without touching the mouse), and what act like random stuck mouse buttons. (IE I'll get a instant click, when I highlight a button, or it will act like one of the buttons is held down on the mouse. and will cause either block highlighting, and/or right click menus to appear.

Un-plugging and re-plugging the USB mouse doesn't clear this issue. Most of the time I have to re-boot the machine to clear the issue, or if I randomly click buttons on the two mice (the USB, and touch-pad), I can sometimes get it to clear up enough for me to continue working for a bit.

Some of the forums suggested it might be an issue with the video driver, so I updated to the latest video driver as of today (from NVIDIA version 185.18.14, and I am still seeing these issues.

This is very frustrating, and for me at least seems to have gotten worse this last week. but like the previous poster stated, it's like the Flu, when you have it you see it a lot, but then it goes away for awhile where you hardly have any issues..