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| boo... |
 Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:07 pm |
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In every case, the installed mouse works properly until the
installation completes, and then, when KDE or Gnome loads, the cursor
disappears !
Have tried :
Ubuntu, 3 versions
SUSE, 3 versions
Knoppix, 2 versions
Yast fails to do anything, test always fails no matter what type mouse
I select.
System is a Pentium 4 with 512mb RAM.
I'm at witts end ! Any Ideas ? I'm NOT a Linux expertbut used to use
Redhat 5.2
Regards, boo |
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| Bill Marcum... |
| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:07 pm |
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["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.setup.]
On 2009-08-19, boo <boo_is at (no spam) home.now> wrote:
Quote: In every case, the installed mouse works properly until the
installation completes, and then, when KDE or Gnome loads, the cursor
disappears !
Have tried :
Ubuntu, 3 versions
SUSE, 3 versions
Knoppix, 2 versions
Yast fails to do anything, test always fails no matter what type mouse
I select.
System is a Pentium 4 with 512mb RAM.
I'm at witts end ! Any Ideas ? I'm NOT a Linux expertbut used to use
Redhat 5.2
Regards, boo
Selecting the wrong (obsolete) type of mouse could cause the cursor to move
strangely, but if the cursor disappears, that's a video card problem. You
might need to edit xorg.conf to specify a software cursor. |
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| Cybe R. Wizard... |
| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:52 pm |
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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:07:32 -1000
boo <boo_is at (no spam) home.now> wrote:
Quote: In every case, the installed mouse works properly until the
installation completes, and then, when KDE or Gnome loads, the cursor
disappears !
Bad eyes? Press the control button and watch the screen...
....you could have told us if it is a PS2, USB or serial mouse...
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Have tried :
Ubuntu, 3 versions
SUSE, 3 versions
Knoppix, 2 versions
....that shouldn't have the slightest thing to do with mouse failure...
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Yast fails to do anything, test always fails no matter what type mouse
I select.
.... or if it a wireless or even just optical mouse...
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System is a Pentium 4 with 512mb RAM.
....and being told if some of that RAM is used for graphics could help us
help you, too...
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I'm at witts end ! Any Ideas ? I'm NOT a Linux expertbut used to use
Redhat 5.2
A GNUbie using an eleven year old Linux is the same as never having
used Linux at all. Most everything has changed for the better since
then.
I'm betting that you have a hardware problem. Does it work with your
Windows install?
Cybe R. Wizard
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Nice computers don't go down.
Larry Niven, Steven Barnes
"The Barsoom Project" |
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| Beauregard T. Shagnasty... |
| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:13 pm |
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In alt.os.linux.ubuntu, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
Quote: ...you could have told us if it is a PS2, USB or serial mouse...
Please look to the extreme right end of the verbose subject line.
:-) ..though I will submit the info should have been included in the
body of the post.
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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows |
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| Cybe R. Wizard... |
| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:46 pm |
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On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:13:27 -0400
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous at (no spam) example.invalid> wrote:
Quote: Please look to the extreme right end of the verbose subject line.
:-) ..though I will submit the info should have been included in the
body of the post.
Ah, yes. Thanks, Beau, and sorry, boo. (that was fun to say!) I plead
a small window made me do it.
Cybe R. Wizard
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Nice computers don't go down.
Larry Niven, Steven Barnes
"The Barsoom Project" |
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