Regardless of what software you install, and with the exception of hardware faults, a clean live cd should always yield the same results.
Inconsistencies of live cd boots would lead me to look for a hardware problem. But as you can no longer reproduce the issue, identifying the cause will be very difficult. Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:03:17 To: ubuntu-uk<ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Touchpad problem .... Hi there .... anyone come across anything like this? I bought a Samsung N145 Plus Netbook from the very helpful guy on e-bay I told you about. I came pre-loaded with Ubuntu 11.04 and seemed fine until I installed a couple of apps, after which the touchpad appeared to die. The guy I bought it from was convinced it was going to be a software fauld and although he would have accepted it back, I felt encouraged to look deeper. He had sent me some helpful links, one of which was a page on the Ubuntu Bug wiki giving detailed instructions for detailed diagnosis and reporting. Eventually, I popped the LiveCD of 10.04 in and the touchpad worked when I booted this. I did a fresh install, and everything seemed fine. Then I shut down and when I re-booted, the touchpad had disappeared again. Instead of a touchpad, the kernel had installed it as a PS2 Generic wheel mouse, so of course it didn't do anything. The thing is, after that, the pad wouldn't work even when booting from any of the Live CDs I tried - 10.10 up to 11.10. I took the battery out because obviously something was 'remembering' that I didn't have a touchpad. Still no luck. This morning, I thought that the only place that anything could have been stored was the bios flash memory. After a bios reset to defaults, the touchpad came back on line again and try as I might, I can't seem to break it again. Any thoughts? I'm really curious. The touchpad gets installed as an ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad. Regards, Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
