On Wed, 17 May 2023 06:35:54 +0200 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 08:07:51PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Tue, 16 May 2023 13:43:26 -0500 > > Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > > > > > <flakey mouse behavior> > > > > > > Just for kicks, unplug the keyboard and see if the mouse starts > > > behaving. > > > > > > No, no change. > > No surprise. People still barking up the hardware tree, > while all evidence is pointing up the software tree :)
I think so. > > - change came with an upgrade Probably, nothing else was changed or installed around that time. I have rolled back the kernel and the three xserver packages to no effect, and there seem to be no other possible suspects. But there were 118 packages, including several libraries. > - change from wireless mouse to wired: no effect > - other distro: mouse works > > If you are able to get a terminal running under your > crippled X11 [1], then it'd be interesting to compare > the output of "xinput --list --long" between a working > and a non-working config. OK, done for sid, I'll boot into Knoppix when I have a moment. > > My hunch would be that something's rotten in the state > of Sid. Definitely. I'm hoping to avoid reinstalling, at least partly because I may well just reinstall the problem, but GIMP and.some other things are unusable at the moment. > > Thanks for your help. Joe
