I've installed Ubuntu (5.04) on a cousin's oldish PC. (It's an "AcerPower 4300" with a 466MHz Celeron, 128Mb RAM and a 10Gb hard drive. A bit cramped, but still worthwhile :)
Just one problem: Occasionally, after booting up and starting GNOME, the keyboard and mouse buttons go haywire. Keys repeat like ccccccccccraaazzzzzzzzyyy and mouse button clicks register erratically. As a result, the desktop is unusable. What I've noticed: - Typing on the console (CTRL-ALT-F1) is fine. - gdm is unaffected (no problem typing in username & password). - About 1 in 10 boots suffer from the problem, so rebooting usually gets rid of it. (But having to reboot is a pain!) What I've tried (all with no luck): - Logging out of GNOME, then back in. - Stopping and restarting and gdm. - Disabling gdm altogether and running X via startx. - Booting with different keyboards and mice plugged in. - Disabling keyboard repeat (this does make the keyboard usable, but doesn't deal with the mouse buttons or get to the cause of the problem). - Removing the mouse-related modules from /etc/modules, temporarily. (Other people seem to have solved odd mouse problems by changing the order in which mouse modules get loaded.) - Google. (Nothing I've found seems to match.) I'll be visiting my cousin again on Wednesday. Any suggestions on what to try while I'm there? Thanks very much for ideas, Tim -- Timothy Musson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/
