dead mouse acer aspire 5517 LT

Mike Holstein mikeh789 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 06:23:32 GMT 2010 

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Kenneth Koym <koymkg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Daryl, Mike & Ralph:
> Thanks Daryl, your experience adds what I learned after having a total
> reversal today. I called in to Acer presuming my laptop is defective. Reason
> I say your experience is very valid, is this. The acer tech walked me
> through a trip the system default mechanism. As I see it, when you removed
> the battery, knowingly or unknowingly you too had forced your Aspire into
> default.
>
> To any and all, if your Aspire 5517 model's mouse dies, boot up once more
> pressing the F2 till it allows you to spring the default steps. Then shut
> down and boot up. Then click the button to the left of the power on button.
> Wah la,,, if there is no actual defect, the mouse on your touch pad will
> reactivate promptly. So Daryl, what I make of you removing the battery is
> this. Your method breaks the jammed circuit by removing the "weak battery"
> and booting up without the battery and running solely with the power cord.
>
> Mike, would not my situation and the situation Daryl has explain both
> amount to bringing the OS into a default start up? I believe so and sure was
> glad I do not have to do without my laptop.
>
> Keh
>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Daryl Haataja <daryl.haataja at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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HEY, even better.. yeah, whatever it takes to rule out a hardware problem i
say...

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