Mouse event problems
Joshua Judson Rosen
rozzin at hackerposse.com
Wed Mar 30 14:06:06 EDT 2016
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 <rozzin at hackerposse.com <mailto:rozzin at hackerposse.com>>
> To: "Ken D'Ambrosio" <ken at jots.org <mailto:ken at jots.org>>, Tyson Sawyer <tyson at j3.org <mailto:tyson at j3.org>>
> Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org <mailto:gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>>, tyson.sawyer at gmail.com <mailto:tyson.sawyer at 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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