Re: [opensuse] New installation, erratic mouse cursor

At 09:37:03 on Thursday Thursday 01 October 2009, "David C. Rankin" wrote:

On Wednesday 30 September 2009 01:14:15 pm Stan Goodman wrote:

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At 18:02:31 on Wednesday Wednesday 30 September 2009, "David C. Rankin"

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On Tuesday 29 September 2009 06:58:45 pm Stan Goodman wrote:

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I've installed v11.1 on a new notebook machine, and am finding it difficult to control the mouse. The motion of its cursor is erratic when I am trying to move it, sometimes jumping clear across the screen; it's enough to try ones patience. The external mouse and the machines touch panel behave identically, so the problem must not be in the mouse itself, but then I don't know what to suspect.

Details:

Dell Vostro 1501 Desktop KDE4 (I suppose this is 4.1, on the 11.1 DVD)

I have other problems with kde4, but I will ask about these tomorrow, as it is now 0200 here and I am beat.

Stan,

I've seen that before on several occasions. (admittedly wishy washy answer) But it is something I have had that generally cures itself. Try running sax2 again, and then restart the box. When it has occurred on my boxes, it is like the mouse bit-rate gets confused and then is reset either through going through the gui setup or just gets happy on the next boot.

I found out that it is that bad only when there is a mouse connected; then both mouse and touch panel become really aggravation. So I have disconnected the mouse (because I haven't yet found how to disable the touch screen, which I don't like at all.

I succeeded to finish an installation this morning, with KDE4, because I thought the time had come to get used to it (I have been using KDE3 on my desktop machine). I am sorry to sound like I am that set in my ways, but I don't like the KDE4 interface, which seems to have made large numbers of changes mostly for the sake of change (where have we heard that?). I've deleted the installation, and will repeat it with KDE3. I will have a lot of soul searching to do when a release comes out without the KDE3 option.

I trust you know about syndaemon, that disables the touchpad for x number of seconds after the keyboard is used to help with cursor movements caused by brushing the touchpad while typing. I use it in an autostart script in kde:

syndaemon -d -p /var/run/dcr/syndaemon.pid -K

IIRC, it also has the ability to completely disable the touchpad in the event you don't have another way. Give it a look ;-)

Apparently it can do this only for finite periods, while I will want to disable the touchpad permanently. I'm sure I will find how to do that, and I don't see it as a problem. Meantime, a much more serious problem has popped up, which I will describe in a new message. Thanks much. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org