I'm also affected by this bug. Using Jaunty PPC on a PS3, Microsoft Notebook Mouse 5000.
Workaround 1: sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Workaround 2: sudo gedit /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi Comment this line by adding <!-- before and --> after <!-- <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge> --> Both workarounds work great, I just wanted to put them into a more noobish approach, especially that in the first comment the command is misspelled (xserver instead of xerver) ** Description changed: Binary package hint: hal [[[ For users suffering from this problem, the easiest workaround is to: - sudo apt-get remove xerver-xorg-input-synaptics + sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics ]]] I own a Logitech LX710 mouse - keyboard combo. Its mouse works fine on my laptop (i386), but the mouse wheel doesn't work on my PS3 (powerpc). I used the hotkeys troubleshooting page of the wiki to find the root cause of the problem, and it seems to be a problem in hal. Using the hal-find-by-capability command, I found that the "input.x11_driver" value is different on the two machines: - on i386, "input.x11_driver" is "evdev" - on powerpc, "input.x11_driver" is "synatpics" Thanks. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: powerpc DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: hal 0.5.12~rc1+git20090204-0ubuntu4 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: hal Uname: Linux 2.6.28-5-powerpc64-smp ppc64 -- [jaunty ppc ps3] Mouse handled as touchpad on powerpc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/351059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs