[Techtalk] Techtalk Digest, Vol 76, Issue 5

Natalee Thomason natalee.thomason at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 15:48:30 UTC 2009


I am going out on a limb here, but could it possibly be related to
using hal instead of evdev ? The reason I suggest is because when I
did a system update, there were a bunch of changes to the X Server
configuration that broke the mouse drivers - see if
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/318129 applies to
you.

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> I recently went through an upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 on my ThinkPad
> T61which went smoothly (or so I thought). After a couple of days I wanted to
> try out a XubunTOS LiveCD (without any installation) and when I rebooted
> back to Ubuntu 8.04 I lost all usage on both my USB Mouse and TrackPoint.
> I brought up update-manager and installed any updates and reinstalled
> anything that had to do with mouse drivers but still no luck. Any ideas on
> what I can do short of a complete reinstallation of Ubuntu 8.04.
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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> Mike
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