annoying problem in 12.04

[Joep L. Blom]

On 22/01/14 23:51, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl
> <mailto:jlblom at neuroweave.nl>> wrote:
>
>     On 20/01/14 15:53, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>         On 20 January 2014 09:08, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl
>         <mailto:jlblom at neuroweave.nl>> wrote:
>
>             Hope somebody can come up with an idea.
>
>
>
>         Here is one possibility:
>
>         Re-enable the option that lets you kill X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
>         Then, if it misbehaves, e.g. at shutdown or logout, you can just
>         stop
>         the X server.
>
>     Liam,
>     That's a good suggestion which I will follow (I have to find out
>     where!) but I'm afraid that won't solve the problem. When I go to a
>     terminal and lightdm sarts, The problem has not disappeared. The
>     only remedy is a cold start.
>     Joep
>
>
>
> It's not likely but worth trying -- you might try a different mouse in
> case it has a broken component. You can even have more than one mouse
> plugged in and see if the other one works. OR try disconnecting and
> reconnecting each mouse.
>
> Of course if the mouse is connected via a hub (maybe built into the
> keyboard) then try using a different USB port and/or hub.
>
> I don't really expect this to make a difference (usually broken mice are
> pretty consistently broken), so don't bother reporting back unless a
> mouse replacement fixes your issue.
>
>
Tommy, Liam,
'Thanks for the suggestions.
Liam, in Xubuntu 12.04 Ctrl+Alt+backspace has been replaced with 
Alt+PrtScn+K (don't ask me why!!)but after restarting the mouse is as 
unresponsive.
Tommy, I used another mouse (also wireless) and it let the mouse-cursor 
move but the system was as unresponsive to (L&R) button clicks. I still 
think there is something fundamentally in error and I don't know if it 
is the distribution (upgraded from 8.04), the X-package or even more 
deeper something in the kernel.
There are more annoying things: e.g. I have an external back-up disk 
that is seen but not mounted during start up. The disk is linked to the 
standard directory where Backuppc stores its backups but as the disk is 
not mounted backuppc doesn't start during startup but I haven't found 
out how to solve that problem and there area more problems with this 
distribution.
joep