From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1Sef-00038X-M3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:26:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A498FE0295; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.153]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BBB9E0295 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so896769ywm.46 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:26:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=P6BE2UfpZujyrvxtndK5MzRh8yBXoAcbn6R/t9/VhHI=; b=d8ZNIXWPd7BpeMgccwxMahBvGvkC1r4XFHhcAu4gD2a9UaKEsHuBJgxYqaRQImVZyk GkGJKgX0Yl03Y7Bw5uqgf9D4BpspOiHuiCMMqkD5DP/KH/cwIbhM2ASXhXpQLj0uZ4l6 7lJMHVf4UvesmcQ8cXMY26VkZy7wUCyccRONk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=XLS9KIiaaHzAF1y3lYchoONyzTeWG0y/cMCBHNzG6XkpEyJ2vAzKm4gMcYwv6oOdRA yhBB6cunfe67U8lZQDUGYZdTFrfCAAhD9vmAE0hjc9DRSc5msXztsHHMcnNnJ58UTfn9 7KwMlqw0NzzrKrSvPxrSqW1xeiSUr0lCrI/jI= Received: by 10.65.141.5 with SMTP id t5mr2296996qbn.85.1226784367268; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:26:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.5? (dsl-243-253-47.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.253.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 25sm3726610qbw.1.2008.11.15.13.26.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:26:06 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop mouse motion Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:25:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <38af3d670811151255k8e40d83n268f57fbf7516ae3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <38af3d670811151255k8e40d83n268f57fbf7516ae3@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811152325.47728.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6a55a84d-a822-455d-9c3e-fc694d46a40d X-Archives-Hash: f777a18cedef72c266329ecd213148e8 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com