dead mouse acer aspire 5517 LT

[Mike Holstein]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Kenneth Koym <koymkg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike, I will sleep and check back. work tomorrow as well. Thanks. Ken
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Kenneth Koym <koymkg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mike
>> how would I test an older kernel and which one?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> What triggered it? ...maybe you can do it into an older kernel to test...
>>>
>>> On Dec 26, 2010 10:09 PM, "Kenneth Koym" <koymkg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > anyone please advise,,, using 10.04.02 Ubuntu Studio, my wireless went
>>> dead, followed by a dead mouse. did a workaround in terminal and clicking
>>> off and on followed by clicking f5, which elicited a wireless connection.
>>> This let me boot up and log in after a lot of rebellious fighting back. But,
>>> I could never recover my mouse, which is like a dead Laptop.
>>> >
>>> > is there a work around. sure need the laptop.
>>> >
>>> > Kenneth
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>>> What triggered it?... maybe you can boot into an older kernel...
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> if it were me, i would try and rule out a hardware problem. one easy way to
do that is get a live CD or make a live USB stick, boot it up, and see if
the mouse works. if the mouse works, then you know that you have broken
something in the software somewhere. in that case, i would try booting into
an older kernel. i would look at what updates have come in, and also, i
would run lspci in a terminal, and see if the OS is 'seeing' the mouse
(lspci or lsusb for USB devices). if i had an external USB mouse, i would
probably plug that in as well to test. you can also 'cast a wider net' as
far as looking for support. google "ubuntu acer model#" instead of
"ubuntustudio acer model#". if you want to shutdown without using the
powerbutton, you can go to control+alt+F2, login, and use the command 'sudo
shutdown -h now' (without the quotes). feel free to let us know the exact
model of the unit, and maybe paste the output of lspci here, and also, what
F5 does on that unit in particular (or what it is supposed to do).

...sorry about that earlier post, i was trying 'reply inline' from my droid,
and i had an auto-complete fail...


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