I have a very strange problem.
I had Ubuntu 9.10 working well on my desktop - after updating to 10.04, it would not recognise my mouse or keyboard - they are not usb, they are the older plug in types (?ps2). When I plugged in a usb mouse, and rebooted, both the usb and old devices worked intermittently. I then plugged in a usb wireless keyboard and mouse and all was well for a while but now both have ceased to function - I just get a stationary arrow and no way of accessing anything. They all work perfectly if I boot into windows as this is a dual boot computer. Any ideas?
That's very weird. Presumably they behave OK when running Lucid from the live CD?
The biggest problem I've seen upgrading from 9.10 to 10.4 is that Firefox says it's been upgraded and needs to be restarted, over and over. Three upgrades so far have done this (one network upgrade, two from alternative cd). This problem can be solved quite easily by uninstalling all the firefox packages and then installing it again but it's an annoyance that probably should have been caught in testing..
On 23 May 2010 12:08, john jtorrance@xtra.co.nz wrote:
I have a very strange problem.
I had Ubuntu 9.10 working well on my desktop - after updating to 10.04, it would not recognise my mouse or keyboard - they are not usb, they are the older plug in types (?ps2). When I plugged in a usb mouse, and rebooted, both the usb and old devices worked intermittently. I then plugged in a usb wireless keyboard and mouse and all was well for a while but now both have ceased to function - I just get a stationary arrow and no way of accessing anything. They all work perfectly if I boot into windows as this is a dual boot computer. Any ideas?
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I have a similar problem with my ps2 connected mouse, after 10.04 upgrade it will work for around 5-10mins after a reboot (probably after a X restart) before freezing indefinitely. At the moment I have a usb mouse plugged in instead which works fine.
My keyboard is usb and that's been ok.
On 23 May 2010 13:14, Bruce Kingsbury zcat@zcat.geek.nz wrote:
That's very weird. Presumably they behave OK when running Lucid from the live CD?
The biggest problem I've seen upgrading from 9.10 to 10.4 is that Firefox says it's been upgraded and needs to be restarted, over and over. Three upgrades so far have done this (one network upgrade, two from alternative cd). This problem can be solved quite easily by uninstalling all the firefox packages and then installing it again but it's an annoyance that probably should have been caught in testing..
On 23 May 2010 12:08, john jtorrance@xtra.co.nz wrote:
I have a very strange problem.
I had Ubuntu 9.10 working well on my desktop - after updating to 10.04,
it
would not recognise my mouse or keyboard - they are not usb, they are the older plug in types (?ps2). When I plugged in a usb mouse, and rebooted, both the usb and old devices worked intermittently. I then plugged in a
usb
wireless keyboard and mouse and all was well for a while but now both
have
ceased to function - I just get a stationary arrow and no way of
accessing
anything. They all work perfectly if I boot into windows as this is a
dual
boot computer. Any ideas?
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On Sun, 23 May 2010 12:08:46 +1200, jtorrance@xtra.co.nz wrote:
I have a very strange problem.
I had Ubuntu 9.10 working well on my desktop - after updating to 10.04, it would not recognise my mouse or keyboard - they are not usb, they are the older plug in types (?ps2). When I plugged in a usb mouse, and rebooted, both the usb and old devices worked intermittently. I then plugged in a usb wireless keyboard and mouse and all was well for a while but now both have ceased to function - I just get a stationary arrow and no way of accessing anything. They all work perfectly if I boot into windows as this is a dual boot computer. Any ideas?
It looks like an issue with udev or xorg not properly detecting your mouse/keyboard.
I just added AutoAddDevices Off in xorg.conf under the ServerFlags section to get my mouse working again in Debian, like so:
Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "0" Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" EndSection
The 'proper' solution seems to be adding entries to xorg files for your specific devices:
http://blog.ichinmay.com/2010/05/03/ubuntu-10-04-upgrade-from-9-10-usb-keybo...
hth, Dean
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