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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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.

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