Ubuntu
xorg package

problem with microsoft wireless desktop elite keyboard/mouse (ps/2 ports)

Bug #25608 reported by Screamin Ike Bluestein
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xorg (Ubuntu)
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Medium
Brian Murray

Bug Description

I don't know if it's X or Gnome, but when I log in, i MUST open an innocuous
program like firefox before running ANYTHING else. I may not run gaim, which
leads me to believe that the issue is Gnome-related. What happens is that it
stops reading the keyboard and refuses to open any menues. Windows and panels
will not launch, but i may continue to do mouse-only work in whatever i have open.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu do you use?

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

Do you still have this problem? Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

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Screamin Ike Bluestein (s-jjswarm) wrote :

i do have the issue, but i think i found it, and it was my hardware.
i have a MicroSoft wireless desktop elite kbd/mouse. it seems that if i try to use the ps/2 ports, it somehow recieves the signal twice, assumes there is a malicious client listening, and i don't know what happens from there. easy enough to fix, though. i run it from usb, now. also cripples the configs for windows, which keeps users from rebooting the box into other oses. :)

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Screamin Ike Bluestein (s-jjswarm) wrote :

oh. yea. it's Ubuntu 5.10. :) until Dapper hit the big-time.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Any luck in trying this with Dapper? Do you have ubuntu-desktop installed?

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Screamin Ike Bluestein (s-jjswarm) wrote :

yea. i have another wierd problem in dapper if i leave the ps/2 port in. it launches an unseamly number of help menues. like.... in the course of typing this, it would have launched over 20, had it not had the proper hardware configuration.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Does anything turn up in the logs? /var/log/syslog or /var/log/Xorg.*.log?

Changed in xorg:
assignee: desktop-bugs → ubuntu-x-swat
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.

Changed in xorg:
assignee: ubuntu-x-swat → brian-murray
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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