Ubuntu-bugsquad Digest, Vol 29, Issue 9

[Wolfger]

Actually, I've had my usb optical mouse (logitech) quit working twice
now in 8.10

Once on Gnome with Compiz and once on Fluxbox. In both cases, the
keyboard still functioned, though I could not ctrl-alt-f* into a
different session.

On 11/19/08, Bryan Harris <brywilharris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter,
> I guarantee the problem isn't your mouse!  Not unless you're running a
> custom mouse driver...  The "mouse freezes" because the whole system has
> frozen.  It's very likely a 3D driver problem.  Not much else hangs a
> kernel like that as must of the drivers are pretty stable.  3D drivers
> are closed source and can't be debugged.
>
> Compiz is the thing that used whiz-bang 3D effects and may cause an
> older 3D card to hang the system.
>
> To get rid of compiz, try this:
> -boot in rescue mode (second line on grub menu)
> -at the menu, choose root shell prompt
> -sudo apt-get remove compiz
> -sudo apt-get remove compiz-core
> -exit
> -resume normal boot
> -found here:
> http://start.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6099469
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 12:00 +0000,
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>> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:41:57 +0000
>> From: Peter Rowell <peter at erowell.co.uk>
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>> I have upgraded from v8.04 to 8.10. I am having serious problems with an
>> optical mouse.
>>
>> 1) The mouse will freeze at times, locking up the whole sysetm, the only
>> way out is to press and hold the On/Off button. This is usually when
>> using Thunderbird.
>>
>> 2) When using Komposer, moving the mouse pointer will cause Komposer to
>> quit.
>>
>> Sorry, but I shall have to revert to v8.04.
>>
>>
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