Mouse/touchpad is broken

[Dakota31415]

My mouse will sometimes randomly act like the left-click button is pressed. Sometimes it won't highlight links, buttons, folders, etc. Sometimes it will highlight these, but it won't work when clicked. The keyboard works fine. I can get the problem to go away for a few minutes by pressing some combination of ctrl+alt, ins, and fn+F3, but its REALLY ANNOYING. PLEASE HELP! Thanks in advance.

[Pjotr]

Please generate an overview of your system like this:
- launch a terminal window and make it full screen, to avoid chopped lines;
- copy/paste this command into the terminal:

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inxi -Fxz

(if you type: the letter F is a capital letter)

Press Enter.

Copy/paste the output in your next message.

[Dakota31415]

inxi -Fxz
System: Host: dakota-Satellite-C650D Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine: System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite C650D version: PSC16U-021036
Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC Bios: Insyde version: 1.60 date: 09/02/2010
CPU: Single core AMD V140 (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm) bmips: 4588.37 clocked at 2300.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250] bus-ID: 01:05.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet driver: atl1c ver: 1.0.1.1-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 08:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (10.7% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MK2565GS size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 57G used: 12G (23%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 1.87GB used: 0.16GB (9%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 61.1C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 149 Uptime: 22:43 Memory: 722.1/1757.6MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4

[Pjotr]

Nothing very much wrong there.... I suspect that the touchpad is simply broken.

Anyway, (no harm in that), you could still try if upgrading to the latest kernel within the 3.13 series helps:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... el-updates
(item 3, right column)

By the way: does Driver Manager offer you an fglrx driver? If so, install it and reboot.