Erratic mouse behavior in 12.04

[O. Sinclair]

On 05/06/12 08:26, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 03/06/12 00:48, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>> Em s�bado, 02 de junho de 2012, �s 16:40:26, Basil Chupin escreveu:
>>> On 31/05/12 03:40, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>>>
>>> [...........]
>>>
>>>> It's not that I'm ignoring your suggestion, it's just that it's not so
>>>> simple to test it. Right now, Xorg can't even see the nvidia GPU. It is
>>>> "disabled", so to speak (not exactly, is on and consuming power, but
>>>> it's
>>>> invisible for the system). Only the Intel GPU is visible
>>> Forgive me if I am misunderstanding something here...... but whatever
>>> graphic device you want to use is controlled by what you set it to be in
>>> your BIOS.
>>>
>>> Are you saying that you have your BIOS set to use the Intel GPU on the
>>> motherboard?
>> No, unfortunately my BIOS does not have an option to set the GPU to be
>> used. I
>> wish it had, it would be so much simpler to use the nvidia GPU...
>
> [.........]
>
> I am not ignoring what you wrote in what I have just trimmed and neither
> am I belabouring the point, but I find it most strange that your BIOS -
> even if it is on a Dell computer - not to have the ability to choose
> which video to use.
>
> As far as I know - which is not much - your BIOS will show the standard
> options when you enter the BIOS settings (?CTRL-DEL? or does Dell use
> some other combination of keys?) but then if you press something like
> CTRL-Fx you will get additional options displayed. Have you tried this
> to see what those "hidden" options are?
>

Believe me.. there are some "modern" BIOS that are severely hampered in 
what you can do. I have a HP Pavillion with the freaking hybrid 
graphics. There IS an option in bios to select hybrid or one card - if 
you can find it as you have to open BIOS with a special keycombination 
to get to that setting. AND it does not work... apparently there is a 
"key setting" when BIOS is compiled that disables it. Further I can not 
switch off the fingerprint-reader I have no intention of ever using and 
so on and so forth.

Never HP again.

Sinclair