SOLVED Lost ps/2 Mouse pointer control after viewing Youtube Videos.

[newtusmaximus]

On the HP DC7700  Desktop intel 82q963/q965 Vid Card-( spec in profile below) I lose control of the pointer whilst/after viewing Youtube videos. The Mouse "ghosts" so I can activate areas/controls but the actual visible pointer stays locked in place. i.e I have to guess where the pointer actually is and watch for change in activation point when "ghost" is over it. - I hope that this makes sense.  Only way to overcome this is to reboot.  Full mouse control is then returned.  This appears to happen no matter which browser I use.  Running 32 bit LL 2.4 ( and same previously on LL2.0 32 bit). Mouse is HP PS/2 plugin as supplied with desktop.

I have not had this problem, so far, when viewing standard web pages , I player etc,

Very annoying.

BTW this does not happen on the two laptops listed in my profile below.

Any ideas welcomed.  Thanks

[rokytnji]

Have you tried changing the mouse theme?

[newtusmaximus]

Thanks for the response.
I have tried resetting the Mouse to "default" - Initially on Youtube it all seems to be OK, then if I change  to another video on you tube it happens again.  Strangley enough I have not noticed when I get to youtube via a website such as BBC news etc.

[Jocklad]

Having the same problem with a friends desktop running 2.6.

The only time the mouse freezes is on Youtube all other video streaming is fine.

Tried it with usb and wireless both the same.

Baffled,

Jocklad

[newtusmaximus]

Since my original post, the problem appeared to have righted itself  during one of the LL2.4 updates.  Possibly because the browser/flash issue had been overcome. I am using using the upgrade  32 bit 2.6 version, standard kernel  and am not experiencing your problem. Have you  installed  updates??  I am alternating between Chromium, Firefox and Midori browsers without issues..

Afterthought - I do have pepperflash installed. believe I did this after the previously reported mouse problems and hence this might account for the "problem" being resolved??

[avj]

If you are using chrome you can prevent sites from disabling the mouse cursor under:

Code:

chrome://settings/content

Just copy and paste the above into the address bar, it will open to the content settings page, scroll down until you see the "Mouse cursor" heading and click on the "Do not allow any site to disable the mouse cursor" option.

I have not found this setting in firefox.

[Jocklad]

Thanks for all your help.

No improvement with above.

Now the external HDD is running LL2.6 with chrome which only freezes using Youtube.

I booted this HDD on another Desktop this afternoon and it was fine.

So I think this may be a hardware rather than Operating system problem.

Jocklad :-\

[newtusmaximus]

Cursor problem has occurred again Desktop ll2.6  Got round the problem with 2.0 by installing pepperflash and configuring Firefox.  Chrome always used to work without problems - my fallback position.

Have tried the appraoch listed above  re mouse control refusal; Rebooted and still no joy  - Used to be now and again , but now all the time -  Desktop pc is 8 or so years old -

Triedcat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags
Have sse2 listed so in theory video card is good enough for the job??  BBC Iplayer and news  videos etc - no problem.
intel 82q963/q965

reloaded pepperflash  ps2 mouse =  left and right mouse clicks work as does  scroll wheel.  PS2 into ps2 socket not usb converter.
UPDATE - tried rebooting using laptop mini usb mouse  into usb port- Still same problem using chromium browser.

What next please?

[rokytnji]

mine

Code:

$ inxi -f
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i5 M 520 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2400 MHz 1: 1199 MHz 2: 1733 MHz 3: 1866 MHz
           4: 1866 MHz
           CPU Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush
           cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept est
           flexpriority fpu fxsr ht ida lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr
           mtrr nonstop_tsc nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pni
           popcnt pse pse36 rdtscp sep smx ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 tm
           tm2 tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx vnmi vpid xtopology xtpr

for the sse2 question I guess. It is required for any adobe flashplayer above 11.1 I think.

Mouse is starting to sound like a bad cable or socket. I'd roll with a different mouse myself.

[torreydale]

Have you tried updating the pepperflash?

Code:

sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install

The above command is taken from http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/06/insta...untu-14-04.