[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 442441] Re: Touchpad and mouse buttons not working after upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10

2009-11-01 Thread BobKeyes
OK, to continue my saga...this seems to have been caused by the (broken) transition made from grub to grub2 with the coming of 9.10. I followed the directions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 and was able to fix things...and (so far) no crashes. But knock on wood. -- Touchpad and mouse buttons no

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 442441] Re: Touchpad and mouse buttons not working after upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10

2009-11-01 Thread BobKeyes
I checked, and sure enough, I am booting into the old kernel from 9.05. But grub doesn't list the new kernel. I went in and changed menu.lst and nothing I do seems to have any effect on what is display at boot time. I can edit the kernel name to boot, and boot into 2.6.31-14-generic, but a few seco

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 442441] Re: Touchpad and mouse buttons not working after upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10

2009-10-31 Thread BobKeyes
Same problem on Dell Inspiron 700m. If someone can tell me how to debug mouse problems, I'll start working on it. But, I might just download a CD and do a fresh install if I don't get some info on howto debug, and fix this problem, real soon. I am posting this from my old Microsoft XP laptop and it