No mouse in Herd 2 Desktop CD on Virtual PC

Bug #79117 reported by Stephen Drake
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #87262: Virtual PC and feisty fawn. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

I have the Herd 2 Desktop CD 20070111.1 and when I use it to boot into the live environment on Virtual PC 2004 there is no mouse capture. This means I can't click on anything using the mouse. The best I get is a dashed line square when I click and drag. Though this might no be happening in ubuntu because nothing underneath is selected.

Checking dmesg only turns up the line
[ 42.056365] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

There's nothing displayed with lsusb, but this appears to be normal since it is the same on dapper and the mouse works there.

Checking /proc/bus/input/devices shows no "mouse" anywhere, on Dapper there is an entry for the mouse
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000a Version=0000
N: Name="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
...
H: Handlers=mouse0 event2 ts0
...

I realise that this isn't going to be a high priority, but it prevents me from installing using this CD as I can't get past the locale select in ubiquity with just a keyboard. Unless there's a way I can't see.

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Andrew Ash (ash211) wrote :

There is anecdotal evidence of a mouse fix in herd2 at bug 77036. Can you still replicate this bug?

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Stephen Drake (spd106) wrote :

I'm still seeing it happen on the desktop cd.

I've also installed to a .vhd with the alternative cd (id 20070111.1) and it occurs there as well. Same log info as above.

Are there other places I can look for more information?

The /var/log/Xorg.0.log has been attached, but I don't see anything obviously wrong, though I'm no expert.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Now that the final version of Feisty Fawn is available we were wondering if this issue still exists. Thanks in advance.

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Stephen Drake (spd106) wrote :

It still exists and I found another bug report with more progress plus a workaround.

So I have marked this as a duplicate.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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