Mouse not working when ubuntu boots

[Basil Chupin]

On 18/07/12 18:10, Colin Law wrote:
> On 18 July 2012 08:23, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

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>> [***] By this I mean that either the cpu is slow and/or you do not have
>> sufficient RAM installed. There are other considerations as well but these
>> will do for the moment.)
> The OP said he was able to startup Firefox using the keyboard whilst
> the mouse was not working.  It is a bit odd that it is able to start
> FF but not able to work the mouse.

I agree. I didn't want to complicate matters with more 
questions/scenarios but I wondered what sort of mouse and keyboard were 
being used: PS/2 or USB or wireless combo. A USB mouse, for example, may 
not not work if it sitting on the same channel which is being by another 
device until that device has 'released' the channel.

I have also suffered from mouse inactivity with a wireless USB 
k/board/mouse combo when the USB transmitting/receiving 'station' got 
itself lodged behind the (LCD) monitor and as a result the monitor's 
electronics affected the signal and the mouse would not work.

>    I have seen the mouse unresponsive
> under swapping for example but in that situation it would take forever
> to start FF.

Hence the question about the system being used.

It also matters from what I have read in the past which version of 
Firefox is being used. There was one version, if memory serves me right, 
that was a resource hog. (I am currently using 17.0a.1 Nightly and it is 
brilliant.)


> Hazan, can you give us more detail on exactly what happens with the
> mouse?  After login but while it is not working do you see the mouse
> cursor?  Does the cursor move with the mouse?  Does the mouse work on
> the login screen (again, is there a cursor, does it move, can you
> click on different users)?
>
> Colin

BC

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