dead mouse acer aspire 5517 LT

[Mike Holstein]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Kenneth Koym <koymkg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike & Ralf:
> Did the trial run with two separate live DVDs and got no response on the
> internal mouse so I checked with Frys Electronics where I bought my Acer.
> They confirmed the date of sale and invoice # on file, then I drove out
> where a diagnostic test was done. The test revealed a defect in the touch
> pad and top cover; and, that this merited returning the Acer to the
> manufacturer under their warranty. Though the laptop must be away, this
> suggests no causative software issue.
>
> Thanks for helping me verify the trouble.
> Kenneth
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Kenneth Koym <koymkg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ralf thanks for assisting me.
>> If I understand your recommendation, the terminal lsmod report is below
>> but I do not know how to interpret the results :
>> soundcore               8052  1 snd
>> psmouse                64576  0
>> serio_raw               4918  0
>> shpchp                 33711  0
>> k8temp                  3944  0
>> snd_page_alloc          8500  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
>> atl1c                  32975  0
>> i2c_piix4               9639  0
>> edac_core              45423  0
>> edac_mce_amd            9278  0
>> arc4                    1473  2
>> b43                   182322  0
>> mac80211              238896  1 b43
>> cfg80211              148725  2 b43,mac80211
>> video                  20623  0
>> led_class               3764  1 b43
>> output                  2503  1 video
>> lp                      9336  0
>> parport                37160  2 ppdev,lp
>> usbhid                 41084  0
>> hid                    83472  1 usbhid
>> ssb                    45395  1 b43
>> ahci                   37870  4
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Ralf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 23:37 -0500, Mike Holstein wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Kenneth Koym <koymkg at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >         Mike, I was able to log off and log back on using the external
>>> >         mouse but not the inbuilt mouse. reception is off and on via
>>> >         unassisted wireless and my keyboard works without prodding the
>>> >         F5 which had been the crude means I used to get wireless to
>>> >         indicate it would cooperate and restore the keyboard. will get
>>> >         out of here and handle my job for a bit and turn in for the
>>> >         night. Ken
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>> >
>>> > yeah, i would try a live CD... any buntu live CD really. see if the
>>> > computer acts the same... then you can go on from there
>>>
>>> Good morning :)
>>>
>>> pardon, I didn't read the complete thread, so just 2 cents.
>>>
>>> spinymouse at ubuntu:/boot$ cat config-$(uname -r) | grep ACER
>>> CONFIG_ACER_WMI=m
>>>
>>> 'lsmod | grep acer' to see if the modul is loaded, perhaps it's called
>>> acerhk or acer_acpi, but acer_wmi.
>>>
>>> Hth,
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>>
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> HEY, thats great news... still under warranty... its a good idea to rule
out a hardware issue when possible so you dont go beating your head up
against the wall with the software (and i speak from at least quite a few
hours of experience wasted doing just that)...


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