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Post subject: Mouse pointer randomly freezes up
 Posted: 18.04.2011, 20:51
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Joined: 2010-12-12
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Installed on a Dell Dimension c521 (from 2006 or so). It may take a minute or an hour, but inevitably the mouse pointer will randomly stop responding. I've tried three different mice plugged into different USB ports but get the same thing. The machine previously ran Windows XP for five years without any such trouble.
I do not have the offending machine in front of me right now, but I plan to look for anything suspicious in the dmesg log. Where else and for what else should I look? |
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Post subject: RE: Mouse pointer randomly freezes up
Posted: 18.04.2011, 22:47
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Joined: 2010-09-11
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Location: cheektowaga, ny
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can you edit (as root)
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/etc/default/grub
and put
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noacpi
under
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
save & exit, then do (as root in cli)
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update-grub
reboot
if that don't do anything, take that line out and update grub |
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Post subject: RE: Mouse pointer randomly freezes up
Posted: 18.04.2011, 22:58
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Joined: 2010-08-25
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noacpi is dangerous and must not ever be used!
On today's systems, notebooks in particular (but not restricted to these), ACPI is mandatory for temperature control, in its absence there is a very real danger that the system overheats and gets physically damaged. That said, SMP also requires ACPI to enable CPU cores. |
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