Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 06:51 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 1/6/14, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:58 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:57 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing that there is some service crapping out. I do

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/6/14, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: > On 01/05/2014 12:58 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> On 01/05/2014 12:57 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? >>> I'm guessing that there is some service crapping out. I don't >>> think it's hardware, because

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 12:58 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:57 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing that there is some service crapping out. I don't think it's hardware, because I was just using 2 different external HDDs & 2 diffe

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 12:56 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/05/2014 12:55 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm guessing there is some service that is crapping out. anything in /var/log/syslog ?? Nah, nothing obvious. May have missed something. Got any ideas what to look for ? -- --- Dave Woy

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 07:06 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/04/2014 09:12 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Except that today, nothing again. did you log in using XFCE then Cinnamon?? weird that it went away after working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing that there is some s

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/05/2014 07:06 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/04/2014 09:12 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Except that today, nothing again. did you log in using XFCE then Cinnamon?? weird that it went away after working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? I'm guessing there is some servi

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/04/2014 09:12 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: >> > Except that today, nothing again. did you log in using XFCE then Cinnamon?? weird that it went away after working.. maybe it is a hardware issue?? going bad? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- To

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-04 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/03/2014 10:38 PM, Doug wrote: On 01/03/2014 07:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Nah, no difference noticed. But I did catch one oddity. Today when /snip/ I was booting up, I had the trackball connected to the USB port (that has the power connector next to it) and while it was loading the gr

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-04 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/04/2014 06:16 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/03/2014 08:31 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: That's the odd thing. All I did was install XFCE, then noticed the trackball working at the login greeter. Logged in to XFCE, Cinnamon, and now back in to Gnome like I want, and it works everywhere

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Doug
On 01/03/2014 07:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Nah, no difference noticed. But I did catch one oddity. Today when /snip/ I was booting up, I had the trackball connected to the USB port (that has the power connector next to it) and while it was loading the greeter (? the login window) the trackb

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/03/2014 08:23 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/03/2014 08:20 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Installing Mate & XFCE right now to test. I must say, I am surprised that no one else has chimed in with any suggestions as to how to get my USB mouse or trackball working... Well, now this

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 01/03/2014 07:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/31/2013 05:07 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/31/2013 04:03 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: it..my problem with Debian is the ice...dove/weasel.. rather than the real thunderbird. I like thunderbird, I don't want it rebranded. I added the Li

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2014-01-03 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/31/2013 05:07 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/31/2013 04:03 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: it..my problem with Debian is the ice...dove/weasel.. rather than the real thunderbird. I like thunderbird, I don't want it rebranded. I added the Linux Mint Debian Edition repositories to get Fire

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-31 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/31/2013 04:03 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: >> it..my problem with Debian is the ice...dove/weasel.. rather than >> the real thunderbird. I like thunderbird, I don't want it rebranded. > I added the Linux Mint Debian Edition repositories to get Firefox & > Thunderbird. I just downloaded the

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-31 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/31/2013 07:58 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:49 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: Partly ideological; I don't like the way things seems to be heading. Canonical's way or F-Off. Got moderated on the Ubuntu user's list for voicing/agreeing with opinions that differ from the Ubuntu

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-31 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/30/2013 04:49 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: > Partly ideological; I don't like the way things seems to be > heading. Canonical's way or F-Off. Got moderated on the Ubuntu user's > list for voicing/agreeing with opinions that differ from the Ubuntu > Way. ;) > And this little puppy seems

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/30/2013 04:33 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:09 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm embarking on a missions, to figure why the USB mouse doens't work on my Dell Latitude D430. When I had Ubuntu on here, up to and including 13.10; USB mice worked fine. Did not change BIOS setti

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
**Apologies, meant to bring this back to this list On 12/30/2013 04:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:21 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:09 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm embarking on a missions, to figure why the USB mouse doens't work on my Dell Latitude D43

Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 12/30/2013 04:09 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: I'm embarking on a missions, to figure why the USB mouse doens't work on my Dell Latitude D430. When I had Ubuntu on here, up to and including 13.10; USB mice worked fine. Did not change BIOS settings. Only install Debian stable. USB flash