Yeah the old mouse did work except for the standard difficulties of using a ball mouse, and you are right it could just be dodgy hardware, I will test it with another system and see if it works. I just thought someone may have used this mouse before.
I have the receipt still so they maybe getting a visit. On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:57 PM, david <[email protected]> wrote: > Obvious question but.... > > Have you tried a different mouse? maybe cheap=dodgy? Did the woeful ball > mouse work properly? > > I can't remember the last time I had ANY mouse that didn't work unless it > was actually faulty hardware. > > > Morgan Storey wrote: > >> I recently built a new (second hand) pc for the missus with Ubuntu 9.04, I >> had to replace the mouse as it was a woeful ball mouse, so I picked up a >> cheap Laser brand USB keyboard and mouse ( >> >> http://www.shopbot.com.au/pp-laser-optical-5-button-mouse-usb-mouse-4du-price-35014.html >> ). >> The keyboard works fine but the Mouse stops working properly (clicks >> don't register, and gksudo says it can't grab the mouse) and stops the >> keyboard from working in all but the focussed window. >> I have tried plugging the mouse into different USB ports, with no success. >> I think I need a different module, but I don't know which one, any >> suggestions? >> >> $lsusb >> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub >> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub >> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub >> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub >> Bus 002 Device 009: ID 093a:2500 Pixart Imaging, Inc. USB Optical Mouse >> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1241:1503 Belkin Keyboard >> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub >> >> >> $dmesg >> [ 5390.708013] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and >> address >> 9 >> [ 5390.905542] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice >> [ 5390.955008] input: PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE as >> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input16 >> [ 5390.958082] generic-usb 0003:093A:2500.000D: input,hidraw2: USB HID >> v1.10 >> Mouse [PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0 >> > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
