Mouse freezing after installing ubuntu 10.10

[Rabcnesbit]

Hello. I can see from searching the forum this seems to be a common problem and there does not seem to be a definitive answer to fix the problem. The comment below is from a thread on this forum:



Re: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Random Freeze / Hang-up

It's been a while since I last posted. Just to update, I originally ran Ubuntu 10.04 for a couple of days before giving up on it before switching to Xubuntu Lucid (10.04) - which, in 3 months of solid use never fell over once.

A week ago I did a fresh install of Xubuntu 10.10 on the exact same machine, and guess what?, not a single hiccup either in nearly a weeks' uptime. As explained before, I simply don't know why Gnome falls over on my machine and XFCE doesn't - I'm mystified. But at least my machine's stable enough to actually get some work done, and that's all that really matters to me.

PS: NO, I haven't tried Ubuntu 10.10 yet, who knows, maybe it would actually work on my rig???.. but honestly, I've fallen in love with XFCE - the simplicity & configurability is awesome, best DE out there by a country mile...

anyway...

that's just my 2 cents.

Regards.


Link to thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10045433 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10045433)

This has thus led me to ask the question - what is the difference between the various forms of ubuntu - Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu, and from people's experience, which is the most stable (well the one at least that won't keep freezing etc)? It's getting quite frustrating now with my mouse freezing continually and there just does not seem a simple solution to the problem!
I use a Dell desktop C521, with AMD processor, and windows XP SP3 installed on it. So I got the ubuntu 10.10 CD, slotted it in and just followed the instructions to get ubuntu installed side-by-side with windows (ie. dual boot option).

Many thanks

[pawhtiobo]

Hi :)

Its difficult to answer that question, the most stable? Well... from my experience with all the Ubuntu flavors, i would says most of them, i never had those kind of troubles you describe...and i have a big hardware park to manage, from old computers to brand new ones, the major difference in all the versions you mention, is the X11 Desktop Environment and some configurations, some people preferer them lighter, other just like the design of it...other are addicted to a certain type of Desktop...its hard to define this issue. I admit that some video cards are nasty to putt them to work under Ubuntu, and as long i remember my major issues are always the VGA cards (Nvidia & ATI) and Wireless cards.

I advice you to test the live CD's of all of them and which one please you more:

Ubuntu (Gnome)
Xunbuntu (XFCE)
Lubuntu (LXDE)
Kubuntu (KDE)

You also can install a basic system (alternate CD) and then install you preferred environment, there are others X11 Desktop Environments beside the ones e mention in the past lines.

http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2009/10/desktop-environments.html

http://xwinman.org/otherdesktops.php


See ya...

[Rabcnesbit]

Hi :)

Its difficult to answer that question, the most stable? Well... from my experience will all the Ubuntu flavors, i would says most of them, i never had those kind of troubles you describe...and i have a big hardware park to manage, from old computers to brand new ones, the major difference in all the versions you mention, is the X11 Desktop Environment and some configurations, some people preferer them lighter, other just like the design of it...other are addicted to a certain type of Desktop...its hard to define this issue. I admit that some video cards are nasty to putt them to work under Ubuntu, and as long i remember my major issues are always the VGA cards (Nvidia & ATI) and Wireless cards.

I advice you to test the live CD's of all of them and which one please you more:

Ubuntu (Gnome)
Xunbuntu (XFCE)
Lubuntu (LXDE)

You also can install a basic system (alternate CD) and then install you preferred environment, there are others X11 Desktop Environments beside the ones e mention in the past lines.

http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2009/10/desktop-environments.html

http://xwinman.org/otherdesktops.php


See ya...

Thanks for the reply pawhtiobo, albeit a bit more confused now :), but will try as you suggest and trial Xubuntu and Lubuntu. Cheers

[Rabcnesbit]

Ok, I have given up now, a man can take only so much stress!

For the past couple of days, I have downloaded the iso image, burn to CD, and run the live CD of the following: Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Linuxmint and PClinuxOS (KDE). All have ended up doing exactly the same thing - mouse freezing after a few minutes and complete unresponsiveness (leading to having to switch off my PC). Don't understand why a basic thing like getting a mouse to work properly is proving to be such a big headache with linux!

[azertyh]

hello,
look at your syslog or dmesg.
and make a search about freeze. there are many thread about it. perhaps you find a solution in one of them.
i had and solved the same issue : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1606041

[Rabcnesbit]

Thanks for the reply azertyh. Don't even no where to start. I have looked at your previous thead (the link you included in your reply) and involves modifying the GRUB, upgrading kernel etc. For one, I am a newbie and so not that completely familiar with these procedures. Secondly, I am running these as live CDs. Reason being I initially went straight ahead and installed ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell PC (side by side with windows XP for a dual boot). When it started freezing, I got frustrated and reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled just the original windows XP (from a previous backed-up image file). So reason I was trying these various distros of linux from the live CD to see which will work without freezing. Correct me if I am wrong, the way I understand the way you went about resolving your issue will entail having to install a distro on my PC to be able to modify the GRUB, upgrade kernel etc. I wonder whether this will resolve my issue though as this is happening from both complete installation and running from just live CD, and happening to different distros.

Thanks

[docmojo]

Hi guys, I am a novice in these technical issues...

But faced this mouse freeze prob for a few days... Just struck me that, I had installed ClamAV prior to this glitch... So removed it from the system, and the problem seems to have disappeared...

Do you'll have it installed too?