Re: USB mouse on Latitude D430

[Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 01/03/2014 07:46 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Nah, no difference noticed. But I did catch one oddity. Today when
/snip/
> > > I was booting up, I had the trackball connected to the USB port (that
> > > has the power connector next to it) and while it was loading the
> > > greeter (? the login window) the trackball did work. Then once the
> > > login window came up, that was it.
> > >      I'm kinda stumped here...
> > sometimes some USB devices don't like other things plugged in that same
> > bus.. as in only have the trackball plugged in, and the other port
> > spare.. maybe not enough power.. I had that same issue recently with the
> > trinity DM, the mouse didn't work. I... gave up:) went back to MATE.
> > does it work on say the XFCE desktop manager?
>     Installing Mate & XFCE right now to test.
>
>     I must say, I am surprised that no one else has chimed in with any 
> suggestions as to how to get my USB mouse or trackball working...
Have you tried unplugging the mouse/trackball and then plugging it back 
in again, after it has stopped working?

--doug