Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Samstag 15 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2008 22:55:06 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> > Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that
> > the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving.
> > Usually this manifests by the pointer "shaking", moving back and
> > forward one or two pixels very fast (it looks like some 5 times per
> > second).  The worst problem caused by this is that the monitor can
> > wake up at seemingly random times.
> >
> > One solution would be to switch off the monitor every time I won't use
> > it for a few minutes, but (AFAIK) this would waste energy and reduce
> > lifetime. I want the DPMS modes of standby, suspend, off.
> >
> > Another solution would be to buy another mouse
>
> Yes, this is the best and only thing you could do
>
> > , but this would cost
> > money
>
> So? mouses are cheap. I can buy mouses for the price of a packet of smokes
> or two beers...
>
> > and would not teach me the solution (this problem can manifest
> > again in the future, with this or another computer).
>
> So how you gonna fix this? You have a broken mouse, it sends broken signals
> to the machine and the machine reponds brokenly. Here's the only lesson you
> should learn (becuase this can't be fixed):
>
> This mouse is broken. It doesn't do what mouses should do. Mouse, meet
> dustbin.

not dustbin! Its  switches might be usefull to repair another mouse. But yeah 
- a new mouse is the best solution.