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Microsoft wheel mouse (optical) has no pointer
gold_finger:
--- Quote from: girl_downunder on October 30, 2014, 03:26:41 AM ---Except that it displays the pointer correctly in safe mode.
That points to something in the driver-side of things...not so much hardware support.
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Correct!
It's not the mouse -- it's most likely the video driver. Depending on your video card, the problem may disappear once the proper video driver is installed. Go to Menu -> Settings -> Install Drivers and see if it finds any drivers to install for video card. You won't be able to install them to the live environment, but if it finds any you can be pretty sure problem will be solved on a real installed system with those drivers installed to it.
If you want to do a real test run, just install LL 2.0 to a USB stick (8GB or larger). (A real installation, not a "live" USB.)
It's possible that no proprietary drivers will show up as available for use if the computer is using an older video card that is no longer supported by the vendors for newer Linux versions. If that turns out to be the case, you might be better off using LL 1.0.6 -- based on Ubuntu 12.04, so will get updates through April, 2017. The older LL will have the older video drivers.
As Scott(0) pointed out, it's also possible that older kernel has support for older hardware that has been dropped in newer kernels of newer LL releases. Think that would apply more to the older generic video drivers than it would to the mouse itself though. Highly unlikely that a mouse driver is the problem.
If you need further help, post back with hardware specs that show us what you're dealing with. The easiest way to do that from your live LL 2.0 is to open a terminal and do:
--- Code: ---sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inxi
inxi -Fxz
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That will install the inxi program and the last command will output a summary of important hardware specs (including your video card). Copy the output of last command and paste it back here to the forum for us to see.
girl_downunder:
Except that it displays the pointer correctly in safe mode.
That points to something in the driver-side of things...not so much hardware support.
Scott:
--- Quote ---So, given that, any ideas? What changed in regards to USB/mouse handling from before?
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Without getting into the boring/geeky details my suggestion is to stay with LL 1.0.4 or give Linux Lite 1.0.6 a try.
Why LL 106? Because it uses the same kernel version (version 3.2) as LL 104 and will *probably* have a much better chance of being hardware compatible and not causing an issue with the mouse.
Why not LL 2.0? I don't have a specific answer other than LL 2 uses kernel version 3.13 and newer kernels tend to drop support for previous hardware while adding support for newer hardware.
girl_downunder:
As previously stated- no, there was no issue in 1.0.4., neither installed nor using it as a live CD.
Using 2.0, I experience this with every mouse---> unless the live session is run in safe mode, which then shows a typical black arrow.
Obviously, I wasn't too keen to actually install 2.0 with this odd mouse issue. I mean, that is the point of live distros--> to test they work well on/with your hardware in the first place.
So, given that, any ideas? What changed in regards to USB/mouse handling from before?
Cheers
Scott:
@girl_downunder
--- Quote ---I'd been running an older version of Lite (1.0.4) & decided to wipe & reinstall..
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Orginally, I was answering the question based on the assumption you did reinstall.
--- Quote ---Is this something you can do in a live session?
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No, this is not something you can do in a live session.
--- Quote ---I'd been running an older version of Lite (1.0.4)
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Did you have this mouse problem when running 1.0.4?
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