On Tue, 16 May 2023 12:29:02 +0200 Christoph Brinkhaus <c.brinkh...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:02:50AM +0100 schrieb Joe: > > Hello Joe, > > [...deleted a lot...] > > On Tue, 16 May 2023 10:44:03 +0100 > > Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > > > > > > One idea is to try a minimalistic window manager as twm to find > > > > out if the issue is related to xfce. > > > > > > OK, tried twm and fvvm. Both unusable, as a left-click brings up a > > > menu for a fraction of a second. Couldn't log out of either, had > > > to switch to console and uninstall them. But they confirm the > > > mouse problem. It's obviously fairly fundamental. > > > > > > Just tried previous kernel, but also bad. I can assume by now that > > > nobody else has seen this problem. > > > > Just as a sanity check, I booted Knoppix, and of course there's no > > problem, it's just an order of magnitude too slow from USB to do > > anything useful. > > Now it seems as if the issue is related to X or the driver stuff. > I have three ideas. > > 1. Do you have any xorg.conf things in /etc or the related > directories? Nowadays X is not so bad in guessing the hardware which > makes xorg.conf and such obsolete. If there are X config files it > might be worth to move them to a safe place and to try without them. I can't find anything. This is a relatively new sid (installed on new hardware, opportunity to get rid of some junk) and I have never needed to mess about with X. > > 2. It is unlikely, but it might be that some of the xinput related > programs or libraries have been corrupted. It might help to reinstall > them. I have nothing in the apt cache, so I'll need to locate debs. I eventually gave up and copied out the (possibly) offending upgrade log and added newlines so it was actually readable. What jumped out then were three xserver packages (from a total of 118). I located previous versions in the cache, installed them, rebooted and confirmed they were now running, and... just the same. > > 3. The comparison of Xorg.log of Debian and Knoppix may give some > indication. They look broadly similar, although it is easy to miss things among that much output. -- Joe
