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Problems with mouse and keyboard with intrepid update

Asked by Pablo Marchant

I have a notebook and I had trouble with an intrepid update this morning that removed my gnome-desktop-environment. So i could fix it, I installed kde to have a window manager and use firefox...But, when I did this, the mouse and keyboard stopped working. To fix it, I had to put in my xorg.conf this:

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
 Driver "kbd"
 Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "latam"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Configured Mouse"
 Driver "mouse"
 Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

A little later today It seems they fixed some dependencies on the repos so I could reinstall gnome, so that problem is gone.

The thing is, with this fix for my keyboard and mouse the scroll on my mousepad doesn't work, and the multiedia keys on my keyboard also stopped working.

How can I fix this??

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Matteo Ferrabone (desmoteo-gmail) said : 		#1

I think you should add the following two lines to the mouse section:

        Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

No idea for the keybord part. I just have an additional line, do not know what it is about:

Option "CoreKeyboard"

In the worst case you can have the xorg.conf automatically reconfigured by using:

# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Hope it helps

Matteo

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Pablo Marchant (pamarca) said : 		#2

Ok, I'll try with those optons on my xorg.conf. Still, I was working before with the typical minimal xorg that comes with intrepid, and I had to add those sections so the mouse and keyboard worked...

Using dpkg-reconfigure just sets the xorg.conf file to the same than before, and the mouse and keyboard get stuck again, so I don't get much from doing that...

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Please read https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/254840
Try to install the xserver-xorg-input-all package.

Hope this helps

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Pablo Marchant (pamarca) said : 		#4

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.

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Pablo Marchant (pamarca) said : 		#5

Your suggestion worked perfectly marcobra. It's weird though, I had that package installed before this problem...

Guess the update did some funny things...

Thanx!!