Left click button on Asus 1000H not working

[Husse]

These buttons are corresponding to mouse clicks on a regular mouse.

Please explain
What do you use?

[richardyates]

No help, but the left mouse button on my acer aspire one has stopped working suddenly. If I plug in a microsoft mouse the left button doesn't work on that either. This is on a machine which has been working fine for several weeks.

All help gratefully received

[Husse]

Well I still don't understand
These buttons are corresponding to mouse clicks on a regular mouse.
I've looked at left click errors and they seem to be rather common and all attributed to hardware
The touchpad and the external mouse are probably not completely independent and an error in the left click in touchpad spreads to the mouse

[richardyates]

Well thanks but I don't understand how a left hand mouse problem on a trackpad can spread to a USB mouse which works perfectly fine on any other machine. Surely this points to a software fault?

[Husse]

Perhaps - but all I could find was hardware error
Perhaps the "spread" was to a PS2 mouse, but they are/were not very common on laptops
I really wished to find something in software.....
Well I am thinking of this - one temporary solution I saw is to reverse left and right click - i.e. make the mous a "left hand mouse"
After all we do a lot less right hand clicks (but this is not a solution - just something to make it less cumbersome)

[DrHu]

Well thanks but I don't understand how a left hand mouse problem on a trackpad can spread to a USB mouse which works perfectly fine on any other machine. Surely this points to a software fault?

more context might help all: hardware
In terminal, check

• inxi -F

--short list of all hardware

Maybe thats the wrong terminology, it is not a spread to situation

..Surely this points to a software fault?
More likely it points to a user touchpad or mouse configuration error in the x-server settings..
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-564735.html
logitech G7 example..
It is that the touchpad and mouse are both co-dependent mouse devices

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Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
EndSection Here are the button functions:

Button 1 Left Click
Button 3 Right Click
Button 2 Scroll Wheel Click (up/down)
Button 4 Scroll Wheel Forward
Button 5 Scroll Wheel Back
Button 6 Side Button 

--you can guess this by the fact that the touchpad replicates mouse functions (click:tap, scroll:touch or button up/down or left/right). Hence you may have to turn off the touchpad to use a mouse and visa-versa

Linux, general notes
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=37175
http://linux.seindal.dk/2009/02/11/asus ... y-testing/

• The touchpad it is an Elantech touchpad but it is not recognised as such by the kernel. It detected as a “ExplorerPS/2”, not as a proper touchpad.

[Husse]

Has the reply from DrHu helped?
It's about what I find too

[jesica]

I am glad I had not yet had that problem