This has apparently been ongoing for a long time. I have a Saitek Eclipse ii keyboard and I and others report that when you click the keyboard button to change the back light color, it triggers mouse events. These end up disabling the mouse. Unplugging and replugging the USB cable for the keyboard resets function to normal with the default blue back light color. If you try to change the color, the problem returns. I am now running 64 bit 14.04 and the problem has been with me since at least 12.04.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636311 Title: Keyboard special keys interfere with mouse Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “xserver-xorg-input-evdev” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “xorg” source package in Maverick: Fix Released Status in “xserver-xorg-input-evdev” source package in Maverick: Invalid Status in “xorg” source package in Natty: Invalid Status in “xserver-xorg-input-evdev” source package in Natty: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: xorg Following an online update from Kubuntu Lucid to Maverick beta, use of almost any of the 'special' buttons on the keyboard (mail, home, documents, play/pause, volume up, zoom in...) fires a ButtonPress event (as seen by xev) for the physically left mouse button (i.e. left click with the mouse set right-handed, 'right click' if set left- handed). There is no corresponding ButtonRelease, so the computer acts as if that mouse button is held down. The ButtonPress occurs between the KeyPress and KeyRelease events of the special key. This makes the mouse essentially unusable. So far, I've not found a way to reset it besides logging off (i.e. restarting X). Hardware: - Basic Microsoft keyboard and mouse (optical wheel mouse, Digital Media Keyboard 3000) - Intel graphics (lspci says it's an 82G33/31 integrated graphics controller) Initially I thought the problem was related to kwin compositing (which also causes some problems, see bug 630632 ), but I've found it happening even with desktop effects turned off. I don't know if xorg is the best package to file this against, so if not, please point me in the right direction. == Regression details == Discovered in version: maverick Last known good version: lucid To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/636311/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
