On Samstag 15 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 18:55 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > >> Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that > >> the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving. > >> Usually this manifests by the pointer "shaking", moving back and > >> forward one or two pixels very fast (it looks like some 5 times per > >> second). The worst problem caused by this is that the monitor can > >> wake up at seemingly random times. > >> > >> One solution would be to switch off the monitor every time I won't use > >> it for a few minutes, but (AFAIK) this would waste energy and reduce > >> lifetime. I want the DPMS modes of standby, suspend, off. > >> > >> Another solution would be to buy another mouse, but this would cost > >> money and would not teach me the solution (this problem can manifest > >> again in the future, with this or another computer). > >> > >> So I want a way to tell the kernel or X11 to ignore mouse motion. > >> Either to shut down mouse motion completely, or to allow it but to > >> ignore it for the effect considering the computer as idle. I have > >> performed a quick read of kernel code and of the xorg.conf man page > >> but I see no clue. > >> > >> Anybody knows? > > > > Yes. What you need to do is write your own mouse driver. Call it > > 'crappydrv'. In this driver, you detect events sent by the mouse, but > > then simply ignore them. > > I don't know how to write my own driver, and what I want is to > dynamically shut up the mouse at runtime, and free it when I come > back. Or, ideally, just make X ignore mouse movement for idle time > calculations. > > But you were probably joking anyway...
if it is a usb mouse, disconnect it. Or unload the driver.
