On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Pete Theisen <petetheisen@verizon.net>wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Michael Fisher wrote:
>>
>> Is my post coming through? Anybody out there?
>>>
>>
>> Yes it came through. Jeez, give people more than half an hour to reply.
>> Most haven't even checked their mail in that time. I have no idea.
>>
>> I recently went through an upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 on my
>>> ThinkPad T61which went smoothly (or so I thought). After a couple of days I
>>> wanted to try out a XubunTOS LiveCD (without any installation) and when I
>>> rebooted
>>> back to Ubuntu 8.04 I lost all usage on both my USB Mouse and TrackPoint.
>>> I brought up update-manager and installed any updates and reinstalled
>>> anything that had to do with mouse drivers but still no luck. Any ideas
>>> on what I can do short of a complete reinstallation of Ubuntu 8.04.
>>>
>>
> Hi Michael!
>
> Well, it's Sunday and a lot of folks do other things than computer on
> Sunday. You *could* look at the Ubuntu forums if you really want to. Don't
> expect too much, though. Ubuntu is keeping a lot of stuff out of ordinary
> view, have to really dig to get it.
>
> Do you remember the posts on dual monitors? It seems that Ubuntu has taken
> to putting a lot of settings in the kernel and not making much use of the
> xorg.conf. That said, you could *try* regenerating the xorg.conf, the
> regenerating command is in the file as a comment. While you are in there,
> see what it says about your mouse, probably not much.
>
> Why did you recently upgrade to 8.04, considering that 8.10 has been
> superseded by 9.04? I have 9.04, my mouse is fine. YMMV, of course.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Pete
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Thanks for your response Pete. It looks like I am pretty much hosed on this
one. I upgraded to 8.04 because it was slated as the next upgrade
progression. I believe 8.04 is a LTS. I looked at Xorg and even tried a
recent version with no luck.
I will look elsewhere or probably just do a clean install. Also, just to be
clear again, I was not impatient about a response. I was asking because my
post didn't come back to me. However, since it appears I've over stayed my
welcome with some of the residents here I will move on.
Thanks again,
Mike
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