FC3 psychotic behavior

[peter kostov]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 22:27 -0400, Marc M wrote:
> I have a machine that does some weird stuff with the mouse.   It is
> really random and it was absolutely unbearably worse when I had a
> trackball, but it happens with the regular ps/2 mouse too.  Basically
> it is like random features, like right clicks or something, that pop
> up at strange times.  I will be absolutely sure that I did not and am
> not clicking on something, when my psychotic FC3 box decides to right
> click or something or show something.  It is not like someone is in
> there with VNC or something, because it is always like quick flickers
> and/or mouse jumping around.  It doesn't seem to matter what I am
> doing - running mozilla, typing something in vi editor, clicking
> around the desktop - whatever.   Also sometimes the mouse jumps around
> faster than a human could move it around the desktop (KDE although it
> happened with GNOME on here too).  I haven't seen any compromised data
> at this point and I have run chkrootkit and I am reasonably sure that
> hacking isn't to blame here, more like an X or mouse problem.  Also it
> is worth noting that I have had this problem after a clean install
> with the current mouse detected and configured at that time.  I would
> sure like to know what could be corrupted.  Does anyone know anything
> that I can check for this?  
> 
> Marc
I had the same problem with a computer at my work, that is running
Windows 98! It was a hardware problem with the mouse! I just replaced
the mouse with the new one and everything is fine now.

Peter Kostov

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