Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-input-mouse package

Mouse on laptop flaky

Bug #39941 reported by Kevin Fischer
10
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xserver-xorg-input-mouse (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Pascal De Vuyst
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

I have Breezy installed on a Dell Latitude D610, and I've noticed a problem going back to Hoary on several laptops.

After rebooting, there is about a 25% chance that the trackpoint mouse (the little one in the keyboard) doesn't work on booting. Moving the mouse before logging in seems to help, but I'm not sure if this is just superstition or that it is really doing anything. The touchpad continues to work properly.

In Win XP I have never seen the trackpoint fail, and since my college campus is filled with people using the same hardware I am, this strikes me as an issue with some Ubuntu package.

Revision history for this message
Ram Yalamanchili (ramyinc) wrote :

I have seen this too, but i haven't seen it in the past few reboots. I had to update to 0.14.4 driver (you have to compile and install for now, unless the ubuntu guys relase a newer package).

See instructions at Bug 47423

Revision history for this message
Kevin Fischer (fisch) wrote :

After Breezy this was never a problem, so this bug ought to be closed.

Revision history for this message
Erik Forsberg (forsberg) wrote :

I'm still experiencing this bug on a Dell D610 running 7.04 beta. I think either hibernation or suspend to disk (or both, I'll have to check that when I get access to the hardware) triggers the problem.

One way to get the trackpoint working again is to boot Windows XP and then reboot - the XP driver seems to reset whatever register is incorrectly set.

Revision history for this message
Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote :

No need for two tasks.

Changed in xserver-xorg-input-mouse:
assignee: nobody → pascal-devuyst
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Hi fisch,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Ram Yalamanchili (ramyinc) wrote : Re: [Bug 39941] Re: Mouse on laptop flaky

hi, everything works fine with the latest ubuntu. thanks!

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Bryce Harrington
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi fisch,
>
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)
>
> If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.
>
>
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Mouse on laptop flaky
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/39941
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Revision history for this message
Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Thanks, closing

Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.
Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.