[Techtalk] Corrupted Mouse Driver

[Michael Fisher]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> On Monday June 8 2009 09:51:22 am Michael Fisher wrote:
> > 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.'
>
> Most times the best first diagnostic step is to boot a liveCD, preferably
> one
> that is a different distro that what is installed. Knoppix is a great
> all-around troubleshooting liveCD. If the mouse/trackpoint works with the
> liveCD then you know you have a software problem. If they don't, it points
> to
> hardware.
>
> best,
> Carla
>
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I did boot to a LiveCD but used an Ubuntu 8.04, because I thought it might
be easier to compare. With the LiveCD the mouse/trackpoint worked fine as
did everything else. Would I gain any additional knowledge if I booted using
Knoppix? I do have a version around and could do that.

Mike

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