no mouse after install

[Thomas Gill]

Santiago Erquicia wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 08:55 -0700, Thomas Gill wrote:
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>>You can try a ctrl+alt+<backspace>to get to command line and then try
>>sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree then look in nano
>>-w /etc/X11/XF86Config ctrl o to save plus enter then ctrl x to exit It
>>should look somthing like this;
>>Section "InputDevice"
>>	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
>>	Driver		"mouse"
>>	Option		"CorePointer"
>>	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
>>	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
>>	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
>>EndS
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>>I tried the previous advice, but response to sudo command was: xserver-xfree not installed
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>>Do I have to be logged in as root, and if so, what is root password??. Don't recall being prompted for that during the installation. 
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>You just need to use sudo with your password.  If you want to become
>root, use "sudo su" and again your password.
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>I don't have a clue about the other things :(
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>>Any responses, please bear in mind I have NO experience with Linux command line.  Original post described how I had no mouse function after installation, and had same problem with a Fedora install. Thanks.
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Well, I got as far as   'then look in nano'    with this. Haven't a clue 
what that means.

Still looking for an answer to : what is the root password for the 
default Ubuntu installation. I was only prompted for User password. Does 
'sudo su' plus my user password give me full root priviledge?

BTW, I can boot up with mouse support into Knoppix v3.3. Why not Ubuntu?