[Gllug] Mouse pointer drifts to the right

[john at sinodun.org.uk]

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> Thus spaketh john at sinodun.org.uk on Monday 08 March 2004 2:47 pm:
>> I've got an odd problem on one of my Sarge boxes (and only one).  In
>> normal use something happens to cause the mouse pointer (the little
>> arrow) to appear about 1 cm to the right of where it should be.  It
>> will only get within 1cm of the left of the screen; you have to click
>> 1cm to the right of anything you want to click on, and it goes off the
>> right hand edge of the screen.  I haven't been able to discover what
>> triggers the problem, but once it's happened I have to re-boot the box
>> to fix it.  Just restarting X is *not* enough.
>> Any suggestions?
>
> I'm sure this is not your answer, but I experienced this with a laptop;
> turned  out to be dried marmalade on the mousepad -- cleaning it off
> stopped the  problem.

Nope - no marmalade in my classroom.

I've spent a long time puzzling over it and am convinced it has to be a
software fault.  The system is losing track internally of where it has
painted the mouse pointer on the screen.  Modulo Godel's theorem, there
isn't any way for a faulty external device to cause that.
I'm currently trying out the earlier suggestion of switching to a SW
cursor.  So far so good, but of course it will take a while to be sure.
John
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