Bug 495840

Summary: Mouse buttons randomly stop working when using xinerama
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Juan Antonio Valiño García <juanval>
Component: X.OrgAssignee: Forgotten User Wum0mkMcd8 <forgotten_Wum0mkMcd8>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: sndirsch
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.1   
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Description Juan Antonio Valiño García 2009-04-17 09:33:18 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; es-ES; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032600 SUSE/3.0.8-1.1.1 Firefox/3.0.8

I am xinerama on a NVIDIA NVS440 with four monitors using the NVIDIA driver from official repository. This card has 2 GPUs.

In this configuration the mouse buttons randomly stop working. The mouse moves but you cannot make click.

This bug is reported on many sites like these:

http://forums.opensuse.org/pre-release-beta/408388-xorg-xinerama-bug-no-response-mouse-clicks.html
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/411549-problem-mouse-stucks.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/296167
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6792364

It seems that this bug is solved on last versions of x11-xserver.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The bug happens many times in usual working day. You can simulate the behaviour using xautomation package with the following command:

#> xte "mousemove 1400 0"

You can change the 1400 by other coordinates on the screen.
Actual Results:  
The mouse moves but you cannot click.

Expected Results:  
The mouse must move an click as usual.

In the forums listed before I have found a workaround to revive the mouse when the bug appears. Using the xautomation package with the following command the mouse starts to work again:

#> xte "mousemove 0 0"
Comment 1 Juan Antonio Valiño García 2009-04-17 09:57:26 UTC 
URL with a workaround:

http://www.gen-x-design.com/archives/workaround-for-ubuntu-810-mouse-bug/
Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2009-04-17 10:04:56 UTC 
dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 483839 ***