Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev Version: 1:2.3.2-6 Severity: grave Justification: use of entire desktop almost impossible, occurring on 3 quite different hardware environments
Hi, on one notebook where I had some rare intermittent touchpad failure I temporarily had to resort to "mouse keys" mode (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_keys ). However, I observed that it didn't work on that machine (Debian unstable), whereas on the machine that _now_ starts to have the same issue (MEPIS 11 - Debian Squeeze) it did work perfectly well. To clarify "didn't work": When enabling mouse keys via Alt-Shift-NumLock, I do get some cursor movement activity, however it's VERY erratic / distorted (cursor progresses in - also erraticely updated - steps of perhaps up to one inch each, i.e. even semi-precise navigation is impossible). Thus current behaviour is almost unusable compared to a previously fully working setup with nicely linearly updating mouse cursor. I managed to figure out that actual internal X11 cursor position _does_ get precisely updated, however: by Alt-Tabbing between some windows, one observes that the cursor does in fact properly make tiny jumps corresponding to previous minor mouse keys activity, but this unfortunately means that Alt-Tabbing is REQUIRED to make it do so properly (thus one would have to do a couple dozen Alt-Tabs to finally approach the precise cursor position to be able to Hit-Test a button rectangle _each time_). I had actually planned to submit a bug report about it previously already, and since I now hit the same issue on the third machine (where I never had a mouse connected) during upgrade, it's finally about damn time to do so ;) Machine 1 (Debian unstable): Notebook Dell Inspiron 8000, Rage Mobility M4 Machine 2 (upgraded to MEPIS 11): HP ePC, P3/1GHz, Intel i815 Machine 3 (Debian testing(?)): Athlon XP, also not working properly any more IIRC, Radeon (R100 or some such) I didn't find much information about this bug (X11 "mouse keys" are such damn fine search keywords, almost as good as"KVM"...), only a current report of "No more Xorg Mousekeys" https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=904880 which is actually unrelated since I _do_ have (barely) working cursor activity, thus it is properly flag-enabled at least. Not sure whether the xserver-xorg-input-evdev component is the correct one to report it at, though (since the X11 server actually does record the correct cursor position, perhaps this would be more of a server-side or display-side component issue?). The pre-upgrade version of -input-evdev was 1:2.0.8-1 . At this upgrade: xserver-xorg-core: 2:1.4.2-10.lenny3 --> 2:1.7.7-13 xserver-xorg: 1:7.3+20 --> 1:7.5+8 As far as I am concerned, a rather important base feature of X11 is thus unusably broken. Is there any info yet, or ideas on current status and how to get it fixed? Thanks a lot for all your work, Andreas Mohr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
