[Bug 41301] Re: Mouse clicks stop working sporadically

[Rob Frohne]

Hi John,

It looks like those kernel arguments may make it so my laptop won't
sleep, and maybe some other side effects.  Is that true?

Thanks,

Rob

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 16:41 +0000, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> First, it's rated medium because it doesn't affect very many of us.
> Another reason it's not rated higher is because there is a workaround.
> The workaround is to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Add "noapic
> acpi=off" to the end of the root line. You can do this while booting
> just by hitting e when the boot menu appears. Then select the root line
> and hit e again. Go to the end of the line and add the command. Hit
> return to save the edit and then b to continue the boot process.
> 
> Editing it during boot makes the command happen on booting, but only for
> that session. If it solves the problem you can add it to the end of the
> line by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. From a command line enter
> "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst." When Gedit comes up add the command to
> the end of the line and save the file. Now it will be permanent.
> 
> The above fix worked for me on Fedora 7, Debian Etch and Ubuntu Feisty,
> all 64-bit. I have since discarded the others and now use just Ubuntu
> Feisty amd64.
> 
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Mouse clicks stop working sporadically
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