[Techtalk] Corrupted Mouse Driver

[Michael Fisher]

Hi Natalee,
The bug you referred to certainly looks familiar and still could be the
problem. I tried to run:

sudo apt-get install hal

but got the message back that 'hal is already the newest version.'

I am not as experienced with Linux as I would like to be so when this
happened I am at a loss. I am wondering if there is a package I could remove
and reinstall. With my current install I have access to a terminal and am
able to bring up 'update-manager', 'gnome-apt-install' & synaptic. Of
course, I can also run all of the 'sudo apt...' commands but other than that
I am limited.

Any other ideas? I really appreciate the response. My Ubuntu laptop is my
main computer for accessing the web and such.

Thanks,

Mike

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Michael Fisher
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Sent from Odessa, Florida, United States

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Natalee Thomason <
natalee.thomason at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated...
> >
> > Mike
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