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acidic

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Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 27

random mouse clicks

I am using an Advent 5411 laptop with Arch64 and xfce but am unable to use the touchpad because when I touch it the mouse pointer will wobble and I can not control it.  I have been using a mouse without any problems for a few weeks untill recently.  Now I am getting random clicks for no reason and sometimes multiple clicks when I do want to click something so that clicking the applications menu will open it then close it straight away.  I can see that other people have had similar problems but I cant find a solution anywhere.  Anyone got any ideas? Thanks

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: random mouse clicks

The spring or bendy bit of metal responsible for clicking in a mouse button can easily wear out. Happened to me. So it's probably a hardware problem - check that.

KingX

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From: CA

Registered: 2010-03-24

Posts: 324

Re: random mouse clicks

If you are using the Synaptics package you can customise how the trackpad functions. Chances are your touchpad is really sensitive. This wiki entry gives you a load of options including how sensitive you want your click taps to be.

acidic

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Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 27

Re: random mouse clicks

My touchpad is a sentelic finger sensing pad or something like that. I tried installing xf86-input-synaptics but changing the configuration file is having no affect on my touchpad.  Also tried installing fspc configuration tool for sentelic touchpads but it is very basic and has no options for sensitivity or anything like that and doesn't seem to be working anyway.

Oh well I guess I will have to buy a new mouse.

atliang

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Registered: 2012-04-20

Posts: 1

Re: random mouse clicks

I am using an Advent 5411 laptop with Arch64 and xfce but am unable to use the touchpad because when I touch it the mouse pointer will wobble and I can not control it...

What does "dmesg | grep Finger" say?

acidic

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Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 27

Re: random mouse clicks

It says

[    5.502419] psmouse serio1: sentelic: Finger Sensing Pad, hw: 10.1.1, sw: 1.0.0-K, buttons: 2
[    5.842592] input: FSPPS/2 Sentelic FingerSensingPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8

marcoscan

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Registered: 2009-04-07

Posts: 36

Re: random mouse clicks

Similar problem. Solved downgrading (to version 1.5.99.902-1) xf86-input-synaptics.