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I have a Lenovo X301 that I am donating to a high-school student in need. I installed Ubuntu 15.10 from the ISO off the Ubuntu site and got it up and running but for some reason I can't get any mouse to work using the left click.

I have tried with two separate USB mice as well as the touchpad. Any ideas on how to get left-click functions restored?

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    The mouse was working during installation and you've tried several usb ports I take it?? I've checked and there are several possible reasons why your mouse stopped working. Apparently some people reported that the mouse started working again by opening a virtual console <kbd>ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd> and returning to the x server <kbd>ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>alt</kbd>+<kbd>F7</kbd>. You can try that. Some other suggestions are to switch to the left handed configuration and check if that works or even disabling the mouse in the BIOS, boot and re-enabling it. you can also try reinstalling.
    – Akisame
    Nov 2, 2015 at 18:03
  • Yes, it did work during install, I did test other usb ports and I did switch right and left click. I tried multiple mice. Disabling touchpad mouse didn't help. I'll just reinstall and see if that fixes things.
    – OCDadof5
    Nov 2, 2015 at 18:47
  • that's probably the easiest course of action to take.
    – Akisame
    Nov 2, 2015 at 22:49
  • I am not sure what to make of this. I had the same issue again. I tried 15.10 and had left click functions at setup. Once I got to the wifi connection left click stopped. I have multiple known good mice and none of them work. I tried also with 14 LTS and have the same experience. Mouse function stops working once I get to the wifi connection in setup.
    – OCDadof5
    Nov 2, 2015 at 23:09
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    The USB Mouse is id=9 and the Synaptic Touchpad is id=12. If I disable the Synaptics from BIOS then everything starts to work fine. I think that will just have to be "good enough" for this laptop.
    – OCDadof5
    Nov 3, 2015 at 21:09

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You can check if the computer receives the mouse click (as a diagnostic check) by running the following commands:

xinput list (note the id corresponding to your mouse)
xinput test <id> (where is the id of your mouse)

for further info check the comments to the question

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