mouse behavior <NOT SOLVED>

[Ric Moore]

On 05/14/2012 06:01 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 14/05/12 17:30, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 05/14/2012 03:13 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> On 14/05/12 16:45, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>> Well, I thought for awhile that fixed it by moving my USB headset to a
>>>> USB 2.0 slot, but it didn't. Instead it taunted me by working for a
>>>> bit, THEN FAILING. Stinkin' USB mouse will freeze up after being idle.
>>>> I've tried different kernels, unloaded the nvidia driver, reloaded the
>>>> nvidia driver, everything I can think of. I'm gonna re-run the DVD
>>>> install disk and run Ubuntu 12.04 from there to see what it does. I
>>>> shall report back. Ric
>>>
>>> I am not telling you how to such eggs, but you do know that if there are
>>> 2 USB devices on the same channel then only one will work if the other
>>> is working and using the channel?
>>
>> Well, just got back from running the install CD in run mode. No
>> problems. I went and walked the dog, came back after 15 minutes and
>> the mouse kept right on mousing. Nary a burp in the barrel. That's why
>> I don't trust a damn upgrade, there's always some old obscure config
>> file ~ somewhere ~ that did not get notified that changes have
>> occurred. Looks like it'll be full clean install time, again. I did
>> have high hopes though. That'll teach me to take my own advice.
>> <swears> Ric
>
>  From what I have read in the past, and I must add that I may have
> misinterpreted what you did write, you seem to install Kubuntu and then
> go about deleting the desktop environment to then install the xfce
> desktop environment. Why go thru all of this?

What? I LOATHE KDE. I install plain-jane Ubuntu and add XFCE desktop to 
that. The mouse refused to work for long in either. It failed in Gnome 
after the first update, which I am doing now. We'll soon know what is 
what. It failed before I added XFCE, so that is not at fault. If it 
fails again, at least I'll know what to do. I'll re-install again and 
not update until the next respin comes out or until all of those 
error/bug reports concerning 12.04 and USB is fixed. Damn... there's a 
LOT of reports over USB failures, especially after an dist-upgrade. Just 
google.

I just re-installed clean, and all is well. But gnome screwed up my 
network connect, which should have been dead easy out of the box as it's 
wired to a DHCP aware modem and worked fine during the install. I 
re-configured it to a static ip and static nameservers, and now it 
works. My resolv.conf, which network-mangler is supposed to administer, 
pointed to 127.0.0.1 localhost. <giggles inanely> A newbie would have 
been in tears, swearing to curse Linux for the rest of their lives. I 
knew where to dig, so I'm just merely swearing. Someone just needs to 
shoot Network Manager and put it out of it's misery, as well as mine. 
WICD works flawlessly every time. THAT should be the standard.

I haven't installed XFCE yet as it insists on wasting my bandwidth and 
harddrive space by installing Abi-word-office-etc. If I wanted GeoWorks 
for a 486, I'd go get it. So, WTF?

I guess I mourn losing more and more control over my install when others 
get to shove stuff onto my computer with massive depends that I don't 
want and just may happen to ~despise~. Anyone listening at Ubuntu??? 
Anyone there at all??? <swears like a drunken sailor> Ric





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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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