I am looking for help with my mouse every time I turn on my laptop and log into ubuntu 11.10 mouse mouse is not on the screen except when i move my mouse over to the left on the icons there it is i log out and log back in the mouse is on the screen my laptop is a compaq presario v2000
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At the log in screen, click the gear and select Unity-2d and see if that helps your problem.
Ran across this in my searching: http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/Ubuntu-10-04-keyboard-and-mouse-not-working-after-update-td1293320.html
Try posts 4 and 6. You don't have to go into recovery mode for these, but open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and sudo su
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That's very odd... Try:
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
And select "Gnome Classic" on that gear. Also, are you using the touchpad, or an external mouse?– Chuck RFeb 22, 2012 at 4:25 -
githlar well that idea did not work but thank you i do not have this file xorg.conf when i searched for it– user47598Feb 22, 2012 at 21:20
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Honestly, you shouldn't need it in recent versions unless you have a special mouse or something?– Chuck RMar 1, 2012 at 2:55
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