dead mouse acer aspire 5517 LT

[Daryl Haataja]

Hi,
 This may be unrelated, but my parent owns an Acer Aspire. Its
keyboard stopped responding. She runs MS so I'm suspecting it was one
of those MS/Manufacturer deals. It seems the MS os has some hardware
triggered disabling that came from the battery getting too old or
weak. It was unaffected in linux, so it took me a while to figure it
out. I'd finally found a similar report online. Similar only. Removed
battery so runs on power cord only. Problem solved. This was an MS os
only condition, but felt I should make it known.

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Kenneth Koym <koymkg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike
> Great to have you as a mentor too. Many thanks!
> Ken
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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