20 Oct
2006
20 Oct
'06
6:37 p.m.
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 18:17 +0100, Roshan wrote:
It asked me to attempt starting the X, and I tried a few times, assuming it would start without the mouse. It failed, and I quit. Shut the system, replaced a mouse (yes, I had a spare, won at a computer quiz competition in Ruia College ;) ) and restarted, and everything started working fine.
Looks like you have a bad hardware (mouse). Have you tried using this bad mouse with a Windows machine and observe the behavior?
However, do _newer_ and _different_ distro's face the same problem?
Newer distros will have newer versions of Xorg. Most of the distros have the Live CD/DVD option so you can put this bad mouse and observe how they react to this bad hardware.
-- Arun Khan