upgrade to 14.04 fails

[Canuck]

My sad story starts just after the "upgrade" sign appeared
on the message bar of my 13.11(I think) system; after a few days, and updated stuff,
I could no longer "click" on most things in any window. e.g.
I could click on the "K" icon and get the first stage, but
I could not click on anything on that first stage. This makes
the computer useless of course. Things on the bottom bar can
be clicked on so I "upgraded" 14.04; the upgrade worked. Linux
did not.

So I burned a 14.04 dvd for 64 bit 14.04 & attempted an install
on my other disk. The 14.04 cd 14.04 worked fine, the installed 14.04 did not.
ftr i tried kde mint for 64 bit & the dvd version did not function; same
problem.

Ah thinks I - perhaps my Logitech "Cordess Optical TrackMan" track ball
is broken so I pluged it into another machine and here it is working fine.

Any ideas?

Thank you for your time!

dkr

[oshunluvr]

So your mouse (trackball) isn't responsive. Is your keyboard?

[Canuck]

My sad story starts just after the "upgrade" sign appeared
on the message bar of my 13.11(I think) system; after a few days, and updated stuff,
I could no longer "click" on most things in any window. e.g.
I could click on the "K" icon and get the first stage, but
I could not click on anything on that first stage. This makes
the computer useless of course. Things on the bottom bar can
be clicked on so I "upgraded" 14.04; the upgrade worked. Linux
did not.

So I burned a 14.04 dvd for 64 bit 14.04 & attempted an install
on my other disk. The 14.04 cd 14.04 worked fine, the installed 14.04 did not.
ftr i tried kde mint for 64 bit & the dvd version did not function; same
problem.

Ah thinks I - perhaps my Logitech "Cordess Optical TrackMan" track ball
is broken so I pluged it into another machine and here it is working fine.

Any ideas?

Thank you for your time!

dkr

Any input widget I can select works fine
but I can select very little

[Canuck]

Any input widget I can select works fine
but I can select very little

indeed the only reason I could update is
the password box was already selected

[oshunluvr]

Ok, so reboot and rather than logging in, type CTRL-ALT-F1. Then log in at the text prompt.

Type lsusb and see if your Logitech device is listed.

Then type cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep ouse and see what if any mouse drivers are loaded.

Then type startX and report what happens and your results from the above commands.

Awhile back xorg took over the mouse/keyboard functions directly without loading drivers. Unfortunately, this means your older Logitech device may not be natively supported. You can still make it happen if you set up an xorg.conf file with the proper stuff in it.

This older post may apply to your issue: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...3-button/page2

[Canuck]

oops - ahh how silly of me! I remember now, sort of. It seems to me that the problem just
went away after a few days. i.e. another update came through and fixed the problem.

So far that has not happened this time.

What with the X uncertainties am I going to have to deal with this forever or should
I just get a new trackball?

Anybody have a recommendation for a replacement?

[Canuck]

solved??

How do I mark this thing solved??

[Snowhog]

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