Re: Mouse event problems

2016-03-30 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen 
On 03/30/2016 12:25 PM, Charlie Goodwin wrote:
> Had a desktop computer with bizarre pointer behavior.  The pointer would 
> jiggle at a frantic rate and would keep returning to the same place - off 
> center - on the screen.  The computer was utterly unmanageable.  After heroic 
> efforts I got a reasonably clean shutdown.
> 
> Dual boot, Mint and W8.
> 
> Being a newbie at the moment I brought it to a repair shop who told
> me that Linux had attacked the Windows partition. I paid them for
> their "diagnosis" and called another shop who were similarly baffled,
> but asked one crucial question. "Are there any other USB devices
> attached normally?" I started laughing, because I remembered that I
> had - but had not been using - a touchscreen. The connector must have
> been loose, producing a spurious signal, causing the manic pointer.
> 
> I was considerably happier paying the second fellow.

I do like the idea of the OSes *attacking* each other, though.

"Oh, I thought it was the Windows 8 *beta*--turns out I was
 running the *betta* releases of both OSes, and so trying
 to keep two of them in the same fishbowl proved fatal"

(Interestingly, a web-search for "siamese fighting linux"
 yields *no hits*! Maybe I'll start a project and call it that...)

-- 
"Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr."


> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Joshua Judson Rosen  >
> To: "Ken D'Ambrosio" >, Tyson Sawyer 
> >
> Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group  >, tyson.saw...@gmail.com 
> 
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:51:01 -0400
> Subject: Re: Mouse event problems
> On 03/29/2016 05:08 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> > I've been bitten by bad mouse problems enough times that when I see
> > symptoms like yours, it's pretty much my go-to.  I had someone in
> > England call me some time back, and could *NOT* figure out her problem.
> > Finally had her wipe her machine and start over... and it was still
> > there.  Which is when I realized she was using an external, wireless
> > mouse, and had her replace her batteries.
> >
> > D'oh.
> 
> *D'oh*:
> 
> http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Coffee-Beats-Wireless
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Re: gnhlug-discuss Digest, Vol 114, Issue 9

2016-03-30 Thread Charlie Goodwin 
Had a desktop computer with bizarre pointer behavior.  The pointer would
jiggle at a frantic rate and would keep returning to the same place - off
center - on the screen.  The computer was utterly unmanageable.  After
heroic efforts I got a reasonably clean shutdown.

Dual boot, Mint and W8.

Being a newbie at the moment I brought it to a repair shop who told me that
Linux had attacked the Windows partition.  I paid them for their
"diagnosis" and called another shop who were similarly baffled, but asked
one crucial question.  "Are there any other USB devices attached normally?"
 I started laughing, because I remembered that I had - but had not been
using - a touchscreen.  The connector must have been loose, producing a
spurious signal, causing the manic pointer.

I was considerably happier paying the second fellow.



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>1. Re: Mouse event problems (Tyson Sawyer)
>2. Re: Mouse event problems (Ken D'Ambrosio)
>3. Re: Mouse event problems (Joshua Judson Rosen)
>4. Re: Mouse event problems (Tyson Sawyer)
>5. Re: Mouse event problems (Richard Kolb II)
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> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Tyson Sawyer 
> To: "Ken D'Ambrosio" 
> Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group 
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:25:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: Mouse event problems
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Tyson Sawyer  wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio  wrote:
> >> That *VERY* much sounds like hardware.  Like, a lot.
> >>
> >> 1) If it's a wireless mouse, change the batteries.
> >>
> >> If it's *not* wireless, disable the trackpad and switch to a different
> >> external mouse.  Assuming the issue goes away (which I bet it will),
> >> re-enable one, then the other, and see who's at fault.
> >
> > This is looking like the cause.
>
> I had originally considered and rejected that the problem was
> hardware, and I think with good reason.
>
> ...the problem was hardware.  I have replaced the track ball and the
> problem is gone.
>
> Thanks!
> Ty
>
>
>
> --
> Tyson D Sawyer
>
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>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: "Ken D'Ambrosio" 
> To: Tyson Sawyer 
> Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group ,
> tyson.saw...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:08:24 -0400
> Subject: Re: Mouse event problems
> I've been bitten by bad mouse problems enough times that when I see
> symptoms like yours, it's pretty much my go-to.  I had someone in England
> call me some time back, and could *NOT* figure out her problem.  Finally
> had her wipe her machine and start over... and it was still there.  Which
> is when I realized she was using an external, wireless mouse, and had her
> replace her batteries.
>
> D'oh.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 2016-03-29 15:25, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Tyson Sawyer  wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio  wrote:
>>>
 That *VERY* much sounds like hardware.  Like, a lot.

 1) If it's a wireless mouse, change the batteries.

 If it's *not* wireless, disable the trackpad and switch to a different
 external mouse.  Assuming the issue goes away (which I bet it will),
 re-enable one, then the other, and see who's at fault.

>>>
>>> This is looking like the cause.
>>>
>>
>> I had originally considered and rejected that the problem was
>> hardware, and I think with good reason.
>>
>> ...the problem was hardware.  I have replaced the track ball and the
>> problem is gone.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Ty
>>
>
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Joshua Judson Rosen 
> To: "Ken D'Ambrosio" , Tyson Sawyer 
> Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group ,
> tyson.saw...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:51:01 -0400
> Subject: Re: Mouse event problems
> On 03/29/2016 05:08 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> > I've been bitten by bad mouse problems enough times that when I see
> > symptoms like yours, it's pretty much my go-to.  I had someone in
> > England call me some time back, and could *NOT* figure out her

Re: Mouse event problems

2016-03-30 Thread Richard Kolb II 
I've heard a few stories of people putting their wireless mice in their
pockets/bags and then trying to figure out their weird windows behavior.
Fun times.

Rich


Richard Kolb II

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Tyson Sawyer  wrote:

>
> On Mar 29, 2016 18:51, "Joshua Judson Rosen" 
> wrote:
> >
> > *D'oh*:
> >
> > http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Coffee-Beats-Wireless
>
> Ha! :-)
>
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