Mouse problems on antiX 19.1[solved]

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Your first post suggests you plug in the mouse via the PS/2 port.
Can you try a usb port instead? Or another mouse?

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[Member gerrygk]

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@caprea:
The mouse works fine on the same machine / hardware and with Win7 x64. I remember trying a different mouse via both USB and USB-PS/2 adapted port, with the same difficulties with respect to antiX. So the mouse hardware very likely doesn’t seem to be the problem.

Thus, the plan is changing the kernel on the live USB system. I’ll keep you informed. Thanks so far for your patience and analytics.

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[Member gerrygk]

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@anticapitalista:
Already did that. Unfortunately that’s not the solution.

[Moderator caprea]

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gerrygk wrote:

There should be no USB interference at all. The devices are all plugged at separate ports.

Sorry, for completeness I have to ask this again. Which devices ? Is there eg. a joystick?

[Member gerrygk]

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@caprea:
Yes, other USB devices in usage are a Logitech Joystick, and 2 external HDD’s. I also use a hub for the JS and one of the ext. HDD’s.
I have to say that I never got interference problems with any OS so far.

[Moderator caprea]

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It’s a problem if the joystick acts like a mouse.If the problems go away when you unplug the joystick, you can try to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-joystick.conf
like here
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/solved-kde-joystick-acting-like-a-mouse/5032

[Member gerrygk]

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Thx caprea, this could be a very valuable hint. Happy for all the good ideas… Tomorrow I’ll try the live OS with a non-plugged joystick.
Btw, this is a Standard 4-axis 12-button js with hat switch.

[Member gerrygk]

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The js indeed was the problem. While unplugged, the mouse behaves like normal. Thumbs up, prob solved!

But /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-joystick.conf didn’t work as expected: While booting up antiX with this config file established, the Xsession could not be started, so the system stopped with the text console (prompt).

Instructions in 50-joystick.conf are:

Section “InputClass”
Identifier “joystick catchall”
MatchIsJoystick “on”
MatchDevicePath “/dev/input/event*”
Driver “joystick”
Option “StartKeysEnabled” “False” #Disable mouse
Option “StartMouseEnabled” “False” #support
EndSection

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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There is a file called 50-joystick.conf already in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d.

Copy it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d (just in case there was a typo) and see if it works.

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[Member gerrygk]

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@anticapitalista:
OK thx, I’ll try that soon.

[Moderator caprea]

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In fact the 50-joystick.conf from the manjaro forum causes the xsession not to start anymore, I just tried it.
Here’s one that works well(under Disable joystick from controlling mouse)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gamepad#Disable_joystick_from_controlling_mouse

And if all this won’t help,if your games or applications can handle the joystick by itself, you could try to deinstall
xserver-xorg-input-joystick.

[Member gerrygk]

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@caprea:
The content of this one (51-joystick.conf) looks exactly like that of 50-joystick.conf.
Anyway, I’m going to try it in case anticapitalista’s tip won’t lead to success.

[Moderator caprea]

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gerrygk wrote:

looks exactly like

Yes it does but nevertheless one of them boots to x and the other one doesn’t.
Hm, the word #support in the manjaro-forum is a link.

[Moderator christophe]

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FWIW, I’ve been using this version of that file for quite a while now, and it boots to X, working as expected (no interference of moving the cursor with the joystick/gamepad). I found it somewhere on the internet, perhaps it’s the same as you found:

#/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-joystick.conf 
Section "InputClass" 
     Identifier "joystick catchall" 
     MatchIsJoystick "on" 
     MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" 
     Driver "joystick" 
     Option "StartKeysEnabled" "False" 
#Disable mouse 
     Option "StartMouseEnabled" "False" 
#support 
EndSection

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/prohibit-gamepad-from-moving-mouse-cursor-in-games/

(I had no idea, until now, that antiX had that file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. I’ve been using this other one for many months now successfully.)

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[Member gerrygk]

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Looks the same except for the comment in line 1, and the “disable mouse” and “support” comments / headings in own lines. I’ve now copied this content to my 51-joystick.conf file. The test will be executed shortly…

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